STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  the  definition  of
          caregiver for purposes of authorizing criminal history checks

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of  section  837-n  of  the
     2  executive  law, as added by chapter 3 of the laws of 1998, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a) "Caregiver" shall mean a person employed to  provide  [fifteen  or
     5  more  hours  of]  care  [per week] to a child or children in the home of
     6  such a child or children.
     7    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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