Bill Text: NY S00753 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the office of children and family services to study, make recommendations on and report on child day care and child care assistance and the availability of funding therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-21 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S00753 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           753
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
        AN ACT to direct the office of children and family services to  examine,
          evaluate  and make recommendations on the availability of day care for
          children, and determine the unmet need of child  care  subsidies;  and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The office of children and family services  shall  examine,
     2  evaluate and make recommendations concerning the availability of funding
     3  for day care for children in the state. Such office shall pay particular
     4  attention to the impact of the lack of necessary child day care upon the
     5  ability  of  working  families  to achieve self-sufficiency and a better
     6  standard of living.
     7    The office of children and family services shall direct its  attention
     8  to:
     9    (a)  establishing  an inventory of child day care for working families
    10  and those at or near poverty;
    11    (b) identifying child day care shortage areas on a regional basis  and
    12  providing projections of the future demand of the next five to ten years
    13  for  child  day  care  based on the regional birth rates, employment and
    14  population growth rates;
    15    (c) comparing on a statewide and regional basis, the demand for  child
    16  day  care  services  over  the  succeeding  five to ten years, including
    17  whether the projected growth rate in the child day care industry will be
    18  sufficient to meet such future needs;
    19    (d) offering recommendations to the department of labor and any  other
    20  relevant  agencies as to how the labor force can help meet the projected
    21  shortage;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (e) identifying policies that would encourage  the  establishment  and
     2  operation  of  more  child day care center providers, and increasing the
     3  capacity of existing child day care providers;
     4    (f)  assessing the cost to parents and guardians of day care for chil-
     5  dren on a regional basis, including the availability of government funds
     6  for parents and guardians toward child care costs;
     7    (g) identifying which  social  services  districts  have  insufficient
     8  funding  to serve all eligible families and determining whether they are
     9  receiving no new cases or restricting eligibility based upon set  income
    10  levels;
    11    (h) reviewing the number and percentage of eligible families receiving
    12  child  care  subsidies  in  this state, as compared to other states, and
    13  report on any policy approaches in use in other  states  that  could  be
    14  useful for consideration in this state;
    15    (i) identifying which social services districts maintain waiting lists
    16  for eligible families seeking child care subsidies;
    17    (j)  calculating the total sum of families statewide that are awaiting
    18  child care subsidies and the projected fiscal impact to the state if all
    19  eligible families are served;
    20    (k) comparing the income  levels  of  families  receiving  child  care
    21  subsidies  on a regional basis to determine what inequities exist across
    22  the state;
    23    (l) examining the use of child care funding by local  social  services
    24  districts  to  provide  transportation to child care and determining the
    25  unmet need for this service; and
    26    (m) identifying policies that would encourage and facilitate expansion
    27  of quality child day care services by neighbors and in communities where
    28  the working poor live and/or work; and identifying and quantifying those
    29  factors that contribute to establishing quality child day care in commu-
    30  nities with the greatest need.
    31    § 2. The office of children and family services may request and  shall
    32  receive  any  available information from state agencies that is relevant
    33  and material to the study required by section one of this act.
    34    § 3. Within twelve months of the  effective  date  of  this  act,  the
    35  commissioner  of  children and family services shall submit a report, to
    36  the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of  the
    37  assembly,  the  minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of
    38  the assembly, on the office's findings, conclusions and recommendations,
    39  and shall submit therewith such legislative proposals as the  office  of
    40  children  and  family  services  shall  deem  necessary to implement its
    41  recommendations. In addition, such office shall make such report  avail-
    42  able  to  the public and post it on the internet website operated by the
    43  office.
    44    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall expire  and  be
    45  deemed repealed one year after such date.