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Assembly Bill A2708

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a registry of substitute staff for child care providers

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2025-A2708 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §410-q, Soc Serv L

2025-A2708 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires child care resource and referral program participants to establish registries of substitute staff for child care providers.

2025-A2708 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2708
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  establishing  a
   registry of substitute staff for child care providers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraphs (f) and (g) of subdivision 1 of section 410-q of
 the social services law, as added by chapter 441 of the  laws  of  1993,
 are amended and a new paragraph (h) is added to read as follows:
   (f)  Services  directed  at providing written materials and conducting
 outreach to employers to encourage their support of child care  resource
 and referral services and other early childhood services; [and]
   (g)  Each  agency  funded  herein  shall  provide services in a manner
 responsive to the cultural, linguistic and economic  characteristics  of
 the community served[.]; AND
   (H)  EACH AGENCY FUNDED HEREIN SHALL ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A REGISTRY
 OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE AVAILABLE AND ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT BY A  CHILD
 DAY  CARE,  CHILD DAY CARE PROVIDER, CHILD DAY CARE CENTER, GROUP FAMILY
 DAY CARE HOME, FAMILY DAY CARE HOME, GROUP  FAMILY  DAY  CARE  HOME,  OR
 SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY OF THIS
 ARTICLE,  INCLUDING CRIMINAL HISTORY REVIEW AND BACKGROUND CLEARANCES AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY-B OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04648-01-5

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