Bill Text: NY A10718 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the fingerprinting of employees of informal child care providers; defines terms; provides that an informal child care provider means a program in a facility, other than a residence, in which child care is provided on a regular basis and is not required to be licensed by or registered with the office or licensed by the city of New York.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-09 - referred to children and families [A10718 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10718-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10718

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin,
          Abinanti, Dinowitz, Englebright, Galef,  Griffin,  Kelles,  Seawright,
          Sillitti, Thiele, Zebrowski, J. M. Giglio, McDonough) -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to fingerprinting
          employees of informal child care providers

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

     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-m to read as follows:
     3    § 390-m. Fingerprinting employees of informal child care providers. 1.
     4  For purposes of this section, "informal child  care  provider"  means  a
     5  program  in  a facility, other than a residence,  in which child care is
     6  provided on a regular basis and is not required to be licensed by     or
     7  registered  with  the  office  or  licensed  by  the  city  of New York.
     8  Informal child care providers include, but are not limited to:
     9    (a) nursery schools and programs for pre-school-aged children operated
    10  by non-profit agencies or organizations or private proprietary  agencies
    11  which provide services for three or less hours per day;
    12    (b) child care programs caring for not more than six school-aged chil-
    13  dren    during   non-school   hours.   For purposes  of  this paragraph,
    14  "school-aged children" means children under thirteen years  of  age  who
    15  are enrolled in kindergarten or a higher grade;
    16    (c)  child  care  programs caring for toddlers from eighteen months to
    17  thirty-six months of age for three or less hours per day; and
    18    (d) child care programs caring for infants up to  eighteen  months  of
    19  age for three or less hours per day.
    20    2.  Any  informal  child care provider may, as a condition of securing
    21  employment or of continuing employment, require that all of its  employ-
    22  ees  be fingerprinted. Such fingerprints shall be submitted to the divi-
    23  sion of criminal justice services for a state  criminal  history  record
    24  check,  as  defined in subdivision one of section three thousand thirty-
    25  five of the education law, and may be submitted to the federal bureau of
    26  investigation for a national criminal history record check.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16195-01-2