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                                  1517

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
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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:

  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

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

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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.
  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.