Bill Text: NY S06672 | 2015-2016 | 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 the availability of funding therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S06672 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06672-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6672
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2016
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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;
    22    (e) identifying policies that would encourage  the  establishment  and
    23  operation  of  more  child day care center providers, and increasing the
    24  capacity of existing child day care providers;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13793-02-6