Bill Text: NY S09487 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Tasks the child care availability taskforce with evaluation of the office of children and family services' regulations regarding minimum supervision ratios based on group size for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-15 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09487 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S09487-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9487 IN SENATE June 15, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to tasking the child care availability taskforce with evaluation of the office of children and family services' regulations regarding minimum super- vision ratios based on group size for infants, toddlers and preschool- ers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby 2 declares that many New Yorkers face the difficulty of living within a 3 child care desert. New York State has begun the process of remedying the 4 issue of the lack of child care through the creation of the child care 5 availability taskforce. The legislature has an obligation to include 6 under their jurisdiction an evaluation of regulations regarding staffing 7 ratios set forth by the office of children and family services. 8 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 390-k of the social services law, as 9 amended by chapter 133 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as 10 follows: 11 3. The taskforce shall: 12 (a) examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child care in New 13 York state; 14 (b) advise the state in developing an implementation framework leading 15 to a phased-in rollout of universal child care using existing state and 16 federal resources; 17 (c) recommend potential solutions, partnerships, or other ways to 18 address chronic child care workforce issues and other concerns identi- 19 fied in the course of the examination required by this subdivision; 20 (d) assess the implementation of policies supported by federally fund- 21 ed programs through various stimulus packages; [and] 22 (e) evaluate the effectiveness of the office of children and family 23 services' regulations regarding minimum supervision ratios based on 24 group size for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; and 25 (f) anything else the taskforce deems necessary. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16038-01-2S. 9487 2 1 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 2 ments to section 390-k of the social services law made by section two of 3 this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed 4 repealed therewith.