Bill Text: NY S07055 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows social services districts to prohibit informal child care providers who are the subject of a report of child abuse or maltreatment on file with the statewide central registry, or have certain felony convictions from receiving funds as part of the child care block grant program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-16 - referred to children and families [S07055 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07055-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7055
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 23, 2014
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       Introduced  by Sens. GRISANTI, GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Children  and
         Families
       AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing social
         services districts to prohibit  informal  daycare  providers  with  an
         indicated  report  on  file  with  the statewide central register or a
         felony conviction at any time for  a  sex  offense,  crime  against  a
         child, or a crime involving violence
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 410-x of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
    2  adding two new subdivisions 9 and 10 to read as follows:
    3    9. A LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT MAY PROHIBIT ANY PERSON WHO IS NOT
    4  REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED OR REGISTERED UNDER SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY
    5  OF  THIS  ARTICLE  AND WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF AN INDICATED REPORT ON FILE
    6  WITH THE STATEWIDE CENTRAL REGISTER  OF  CHILD  ABUSE  AND  MALTREATMENT
    7  UNDER  SECTION  FOUR  HUNDRED  TWENTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE FROM RECEIVING
    8  FUNDING FOR CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE UNDER THE BLOCK GRANT.
    9    10. A LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT MAY PROHIBIT ANY  PERSON  WHO  IS
   10  NOT  REQUIRED  TO  BE LICENSED OR REGISTERED UNDER SECTION THREE HUNDRED
   11  NINETY OF THIS ARTICLE WHO HAD A FELONY CONVICTION AT ANY TIME FOR A SEX
   12  OFFENSE, A CRIME AGAINST A CHILD OR A CRIME  INVOLVING  VIOLENCE,  OR  A
   13  FELONY  CONVICTION WITHIN THE PAST FIVE YEARS FOR A DRUG-RELATED OFFENSE
   14  FROM RECEIVING FUNDING FOR CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE UNDER THE BLOCK GRANT.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   16  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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