Bill Text: NY A01517 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to access to the central register for child abuse and maltreatment; expands the definition of "provider agency" to include child care and school-based programs for children ages three through five regulated by the health code of the city of New York and temporary employment agencies and educational and training institutions providing child care staff; clarifies the definition of "licensing agency" to include the department of health and mental hygiene of the city of New York, when such department receives an application for a permit to provide child care or receives a notice of a school based program for children ages three through five.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to children and families [A01517 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01517-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1517
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. TITUS, ROBERTS, COOK, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored
         by -- M. of A. MARKEY -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
         Children and Families
       AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to the statewide
         central register for child abuse and maltreatment
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  3  and  4  of  section  424-a of the social
    2  services law, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 578  of  the  laws  of
    3  1997  and  subdivision  4 as amended by chapter 465 of the laws of 1992,
    4  are amended to read as follows:
    5    3. For purposes of  this  [chapter]  TITLE,  the  term  "provider"  or
    6  "provider  agency"  shall  mean  an authorized agency, the [division for
    7  youth] OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, juvenile detention facil-
    8  ities subject to the certification of such [division]  OFFICE,  programs
    9  established pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law, non-re-
   10  sidential  or residential programs or facilities licensed or operated by
   11  the office of mental health or the office [of  mental  retardation  and]
   12  FOR  PERSONS  WITH  developmental disabilities except family care homes,
   13  licensed child day care centers, including head start programs which are
   14  funded pursuant to title V of the federal economic  opportunity  act  of
   15  nineteen  hundred  sixty-four,  as  amended,  early intervention service
   16  established pursuant to section twenty-five hundred forty of the  public
   17  health  law,  preschool  services established pursuant to section forty-
   18  four hundred ten of the education law, school-age child  care  programs,
   19  special  act  school  districts  as  enumerated  in chapter five hundred
   20  sixty-six of the laws  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  as  amended,
   21  programs  and  facilities  licensed  by  the  office  of  alcoholism and
   22  substance abuse services [and], residential schools which are  operated,
   23  supervised  or  approved  by  the  education  department, CHILD CARE AND
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01754-01-3
       A. 1517                             2
    1  SCHOOL-BASED PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AGES THREE THOUGH FIVE  REGULATED  BY
    2  THE  HEALTH  CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES
    3  PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE CHILD CARE STAFF TO ANY OTHER PROVIDER AGENCY,  AND
    4  EDUCATIONAL  AND  TRAINING  INSTITUTIONS  ASSIGNING  CHILD CARE STAFF AS
    5  INTERNS OR RESIDENTS AT ANY OTHER PROVIDER AGENCY.
    6    4. For purposes of this [chapter] TITLE, the term  "licensing  agency"
    7  shall  mean  an  authorized  agency which has received an application to
    8  become an adoptive parent or an authorized agency which has received  an
    9  application  for  a certificate or license to receive, board or keep any
   10  child pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred seventy-six or
   11  three hundred seventy-seven of this  article  or  an  authorized  agency
   12  which  has  received  an  application  from a relative within the second
   13  degree or third degree of the parent of a child or a relative within the
   14  second degree or third degree of the step-parent of a child or children,
   15  or the child's legal guardian for approval to  receive,  board  or  keep
   16  such  child  or  a  state or local governmental agency which receives an
   17  application to provide child day care  services  in  a  child  day  care
   18  center,  school-age  child  care  program, family day care home or group
   19  family day care home pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred
   20  ninety of this article, or the department of health AND  MENTAL  HYGIENE
   21  of  the  city  of New York, when such department receives an application
   22  for a [certificate of approval to provide family  day  care]  PERMIT  TO
   23  PROVIDE  CHILD  CARE  SERVICES  OR  RECEIVES  A NOTICE OF A SCHOOL BASED
   24  PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AGES THREE THROUGH FIVE pursuant to the  provisions
   25  of  the  health  code  of  the city of New York, or the office of mental
   26  health or the office [of mental retardation and] FOR PERSONS WITH devel-
   27  opmental disabilities when such office receives an  application  for  an
   28  operating  certificate  pursuant to the provisions of the mental hygiene
   29  law to operate a family care home which will serve children, or a  state
   30  or  local governmental official who receives an application for a permit
   31  to operate a camp which is subject to the provisions  of  article  thir-
   32  teen-A[,]  OR thirteen-B [or thirteen-C] of the public health law or the
   33  [division for youth] OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY  SERVICES  which  has
   34  received  an application for a certificate to receive, board or keep any
   35  child at a foster family home pursuant to articles nineteen-G and  nine-
   36  teen-H of the executive law.
   37    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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