Bill Text: NY A01341 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to access to the central register for child abuse and maltreatment; expands the definition of "provider agency" to include child care and school-based programs for children ages three through five regulated by the health code of the city of New York and temporary employment agencies and educational and training institutions providing child care staff; clarifies the definition of "licensing agency" to include the department of health and mental hygiene of the city of New York, when such department receives an application for a permit to provide child care or receives a notice of a school based program for children ages three through five.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A01341 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. TITUS, ROBERTS, COOK, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored
         by -- M. of A. MARKEY -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
         Children and Families
       AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to the statewide
         central register for child abuse and maltreatment
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  3  and  4  of  section  424-a of the social
    2  services law, subdivision 3 as amended by section 8 of part D of chapter
    3  501 of the laws of 2012 and subdivision 4 as amended by chapter  126  of
    4  the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
    5    3.  For  purposes  of  this  [section]  TITLE,  the term "provider" or
    6  "provider agency" shall mean an authorized agency, the office  of  chil-
    7  dren  and  family services, juvenile detention facilities subject to the
    8  certification of such office, programs established pursuant  to  article
    9  nineteen-H of the executive law, non-residential or residential programs
   10  or facilities licensed or operated by the office of mental health or the
   11  office  for  people  with  developmental disabilities except family care
   12  homes, licensed child day care centers, including  head  start  programs
   13  which are funded pursuant to title V of the federal economic opportunity
   14  act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-four,  as  amended, early intervention
   15  service established pursuant to section twenty-five hundred forty of the
   16  public health law, preschool services established  pursuant  to  section
   17  forty-four  hundred  ten  of  the  education  law, school-age child care
   18  programs, special act school districts as  enumerated  in  chapter  five
   19  hundred  sixty-six  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred sixty-seven, as
   20  amended, programs and facilities licensed by the  office  of  alcoholism
   21  and  substance  abuse  services, residential schools which are operated,
   22  supervised or approved by  the  education  department,  CHILD  CARE  AND
   23  SCHOOL-BASED  PROGRAMS  FOR CHILDREN AGES THREE THOUGH FIVE REGULATED BY
   24  THE HEALTH CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, TEMPORARY  EMPLOYMENT  AGENCIES
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06579-01-5
       A. 1341                             2
    1  PROVIDING  SUBSTITUTE CHILD CARE STAFF TO ANY OTHER PROVIDER AGENCY, AND
    2  EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING INSTITUTIONS  ASSIGNING  CHILD  CARE  STAFF  AS
    3  INTERNS OR RESIDENTS AT ANY OTHER PROVIDER AGENCY, and any other facili-
    4  ty  or  provider  agency, as defined in subdivision four of section four
    5  hundred eighty-eight of this chapter, in regard  to  the  employment  of
    6  staff,  or  use  of  providers  of  goods and services and staff of such
    7  providers, consultants, interns and volunteers.
    8    4. For purposes of this [section] TITLE, the term  "licensing  agency"
    9  shall  mean  an  authorized  agency which has received an application to
   10  become an adoptive parent or an authorized agency which has received  an
   11  application  for  a certificate or license to receive, board or keep any
   12  child pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred seventy-six or
   13  three hundred seventy-seven of this  article  or  an  authorized  agency
   14  which  has  received  an  application  from a relative within the second
   15  degree or third degree of consanguinity of the parent of a  child  or  a
   16  relative  within  the  second degree or third degree of consanguinity of
   17  the step-parent of a child or children, or the  child's  legal  guardian
   18  for  approval  to  receive, board or keep such child or a state or local
   19  governmental agency which receives an application to provide  child  day
   20  care services in a child day care center, school-age child care program,
   21  family  day  care  home  or  group  family day care home pursuant to the
   22  provisions of section three hundred  ninety  of  this  article,  or  the
   23  department  of  health  and mental hygiene of the city of New York, when
   24  such department receives an application for a [certificate  of  approval
   25  to provide child day care services in a child day care center] PERMIT TO
   26  PROVIDE  CHILD  CARE  SERVICES  OR  RECEIVES  A NOTICE OF A SCHOOL BASED
   27  PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AGES THREE THROUGH FIVE pursuant to the  provisions
   28  of  the  health  code  of  the city of New York, or the office of mental
   29  health or the office for people  with  developmental  disabilities  when
   30  such  office receives an application for an operating certificate pursu-
   31  ant to the provisions of the mental hygiene law to operate a family care
   32  home, or a state or local governmental official who receives an applica-
   33  tion for a permit to operate a camp which is subject to  the  provisions
   34  of  article  THIRTEEN-A  OR  thirteen-B  of the public health law or the
   35  office of children and family services which has received an application
   36  for a certificate to receive, board or keep any child at a foster family
   37  home pursuant to articles nineteen-G and nineteen-H of the executive law
   38  or any other facility or provider agency, as defined in subdivision four
   39  of section four hundred eighty-eight of this chapter, in regard  to  any
   40  licensing  or  certification  function  carried  out by such facility or
   41  agency.
   42    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.