Bill Text: NY A08366 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the experiential qualifications of group teachers for preschool classes and groups teachers for infant or toddler classes to what was required for their educational qualifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A08366 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08366-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8366

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  qualifications
          for employees of child day care centers

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision two of section  390-a  of  the
     2  social  services  law, as amended by chapter 416 of the laws of 2000, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) establish relevant minimal experiential and educational qualifica-
     5  tions for employees and directors of child  day  care  centers  or  head
     6  start  day  care  center  programs;  provided  (i)  that  where a person
     7  possesses an associate's degree in early childhood, child development or
     8  related  field,  a  child  development  associate  credential  or  other
     9  office-recognized  credential  specific  to  the preschool developmental
    10  period, no further experience relating to childcare shall be required to
    11  be qualified as a group teacher for a preschool class; and (ii) where  a
    12  person  possesses an associate's degree in early childhood, child devel-
    13  opment or a related field; and one year of experience related to  caring
    14  for infants and toddlers, or an infant and toddler child care and educa-
    15  tion  credential,  infant toddler child development associate credential
    16  or other office-recognized credential  specific  to  the  infant/toddler
    17  developmental  period, no further experience relating to childcare shall
    18  be required to be qualified as a group teacher for an infant or  toddler
    19  class;
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13503-01-3