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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 5, 2012
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Titus) --
  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:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 3  and  4  of  section  424-a  of  the  social
services  law,  subdivision  3  as amended by chapter 578 of the laws of
1997 and subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 465 of the  laws  of  1992,
are amended to read as follows:
  3.  For  purposes  of  this  [chapter]  TITLE,  the term "provider" or
"provider agency" shall mean an authorized  agency,  the  [division  for
youth] OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, juvenile detention facil-
ities  subject  to the certification of such [division] OFFICE, programs
established pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law, non-re-
sidential or residential programs or facilities licensed or operated  by
the  office  of  mental health or the office [of mental retardation and]
FOR PERSONS WITH developmental disabilities except  family  care  homes,
licensed child day care centers, including head start programs which are
funded  pursuant  to  title V of the federal economic opportunity act of
nineteen hundred sixty-four,  as  amended,  early  intervention  service
established  pursuant to section twenty-five hundred forty of the public
health law, preschool services established pursuant  to  section  forty-
four  hundred  ten of the education law, school-age child care programs,
special act school districts  as  enumerated  in  chapter  five  hundred
sixty-six  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred sixty-seven, as amended,
programs and  facilities  licensed  by  the  office  of  alcoholism  and
substance  abuse services [and], residential schools which are operated,
supervised or approved by  the  education  department,  CHILD  CARE  AND
SCHOOL-BASED  PROGRAMS  FOR CHILDREN AGES THREE THOUGH FIVE REGULATED BY
THE HEALTH CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, TEMPORARY  EMPLOYMENT  AGENCIES
PROVIDING  SUBSTITUTE CHILD CARE STAFF TO ANY OTHER PROVIDER AGENCY, AND
EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING INSTITUTIONS  ASSIGNING  CHILD  CARE  STAFF  AS
INTERNS OR RESIDENTS AT ANY OTHER PROVIDER AGENCY.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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  4.  For  purposes of this [chapter] TITLE, the term "licensing agency"
shall mean an authorized agency which has  received  an  application  to
become  an adoptive parent or an authorized agency which has received an
application for a certificate or license to receive, board or  keep  any
child pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred seventy-six or
three  hundred  seventy-seven  of  this  article or an authorized agency
which has received an application from  a  relative  within  the  second
degree or third degree of the parent of a child or a relative within the
second degree or third degree of the step-parent of a child or children,
or  the  child's  legal  guardian for approval to receive, board or keep
such child or a state or local governmental  agency  which  receives  an
application  to  provide  child  day  care  services in a child day care
center, school-age child care program, family day  care  home  or  group
family day care home pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred
ninety  of  this article, or the department of health AND MENTAL HYGIENE
of the city of New York, when such department  receives  an  application
for  a  [certificate  of  approval to provide family day care] PERMIT TO
PROVIDE CHILD CARE SERVICES OR RECEIVES  A  NOTICE  OF  A  SCHOOL  BASED
PROGRAM  FOR CHILDREN AGES THREE THROUGH FIVE pursuant to the provisions
of the health code of the city of New York,  or  the  office  of  mental
health or the office [of mental retardation and] FOR PERSONS WITH devel-
opmental  disabilities  when  such office receives an application for an
operating certificate pursuant to the provisions of the  mental  hygiene
law  to operate a family care home which will serve children, or a state
or local governmental official who receives an application for a  permit
to  operate  a  camp which is subject to the provisions of article thir-
teen-A[,] OR thirteen-B [or thirteen-C] of the public health law or  the
[division  for  youth]  OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES which has
received an application for a certificate to receive, board or keep  any
child  at a foster family home pursuant to articles nineteen-G and nine-
teen-H of the executive law.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.