Bill Text: NY S06333 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6333 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for reimbursement of expenses for childcare and dependent care for volunteer members of public bodies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-06 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06333 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06333-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6333

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 14, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the public  officers  law,
          in  relation  to childcare and dependent care reimbursement for volun-
          teer members of public bodies

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

     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 72-s to read as follows:
     3    § 72-s. Childcare  and  dependent  care  reimbursement  for  volunteer
     4  members of public bodies. 1. For purposes of this section, "public body"
     5  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as  such term is defined in section one
     6  hundred two of the public officers law.
     7    2. Volunteer members of a public body shall be reimbursed  for  actual
     8  childcare and dependent care expenses incurred during the performance of
     9  his, her, or their duties serving on such public body, including but not
    10  limited  to  time  spent  attending  regular or special meetings of such
    11  public body.
    12    3. Upon the discharge of his, her, or their official duties, if appli-
    13  cable, a volunteer member of a public body shall submit documentation of
    14  the costs of childcare or dependent care expenses  incurred  during  the
    15  performance  of  their duties to the appropriate public officer or other
    16  person designated to receive documentation for  financial  reimbursement
    17  or  the municipality or political subdivision which oversees such public
    18  body or appoints its members.
    19    § 2. Section 64 of the public officers  law  is  amended  to  read  as
    20  follows:
    21    § 64. Payment of expenses of public officers. Every public officer who
    22  is  not allowed any compensation for his, her or their services shall be
    23  paid his, her or their  actual  expenses  necessarily  incurred  in  the
    24  discharge  of his, her or their official duties, including childcare and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06408-03-3
        S. 6333                             2

     1  dependent care expenses pursuant to section seventy-two-s of the general
     2  municipal law.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.