Assembly Bill A1341

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  1341

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
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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 section 8 of part D of chapter
501 of the laws of 2012 and subdivision 4 as amended by chapter  126  of
the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
  3.  For  purposes  of  this  [section]  TITLE,  the term "provider" or
"provider agency" shall mean an authorized agency, the office  of  chil-
dren  and  family services, juvenile detention facilities subject to the
certification of such office, programs established pursuant  to  article
nineteen-H of the executive law, non-residential or residential programs
or facilities licensed or operated by the office of mental health or the
office  for  people  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, 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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, and any other facili-
ty  or  provider  agency, as defined in subdivision four of section four
hundred eighty-eight of this chapter, in regard  to  the  employment  of
staff,  or  use  of  providers  of  goods and services and staff of such
providers, consultants, interns and volunteers.
  4. For purposes of this [section] 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 consanguinity of the parent of a  child  or  a
relative  within  the  second degree or third degree of consanguinity 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 child day care services in a child day care center] 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 for people  with  developmental  disabilities  when
such  office receives an application for an operating certificate pursu-
ant to the provisions of the mental hygiene law to operate a family care
home, or a state or local governmental official who receives an applica-
tion for a permit to operate a camp which is subject to  the  provisions
of  article  THIRTEEN-A  OR  thirteen-B  of the public health law or the
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 nineteen-H of the executive law
or any other facility or provider agency, as defined in subdivision four
of section four hundred eighty-eight of this chapter, in regard  to  any
licensing  or  certification  function  carried  out by such facility or
agency.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.