NY State Senate Bill 2021-S9004

Senate Bill S9004

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the establishment and powers and duties of the council on children and families; repealer

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May 03, 2022	referred to children and families

Votes

- May 23, 2022 - Floor Vote
  S9004
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: May 23, 2022
      
      aye (61)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Bailey
      
      Biaggi
      
      Borrello
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brisport
      
      Brooks
      
      Cleare
      
      Comrie
      
      Cooney
      
      Felder
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hinchey
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mannion
      
      Martucci
      
      Mattera
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oberacker
      
      Ortt
      
      Palumbo
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rath III
      
      Reichlin-Melnick
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      Weik
      
      excused (2)
      
      Brouk
      
      Sanders Jr.
  May 16, 2022 - Rules Committee Vote
  S9004
  
  19
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: May 16, 2022
      
      aye (19)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Bailey
      
      Biaggi
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Liu
      
      Mayer
      
      O'Mara
      
      Parker
      
      Ritchie
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Lanza
      
      Ortt

2021-S9004 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§483, 483-a, 483-b & 483-g, rpld §§483-c - 483-f, add §483-c, Soc Serv L; rpld §7.43, Ment Hyg L

2021-S9004 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes and provides for the powers and duties of the council on children and families.

2021-S9004 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S9004

SPONSOR: BRISPORT
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to the establish-
ment and powers and duties of the council on children and families; to
repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto; and to repeal
certain provisions of the mental hygiene law relating to the children's
plan

 
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:

The purpose of this bill is to update and strengthen the coordinating
role of the New York State Council on Children and Families (CCF).
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 would amend Social Services Law (SSL) § 483 by adding a
purpose and making technical corrections including updating CCF member
agency names that have changed in recent years and amending the title of
the head of CCF to reflect the current title for this position.

Section 2 would amend SSL § 483-a by removing the reference to the chair
of CCF and clarifying that the executive director of CCF may request
agency assistance to carry out its powers and duties.

Section 3 would amend SSL § 483-b by updating the powers of CCF to
reflect current practices.

Section 4 would replace the current SSL § 483-c, which sets forth the
Coordinated Children's Services for Children with Emotional and/or
Behavioral Disorders, with the creation of two standing committees to
carry out CCF's broad mandate to improve systems of care for children
and youth: (1) the Cross-Systems Committee for Children and Youth with
Complex Needs (to address the needs of youth who require assistance from
multiple systems) and (2) the Early Care and Education Committee (to
coordinate early childhood systems to promote healthy development and
school readiness). Both committees would be required to produce annual
reports. This section also would allow for other committees to be formed
to respond to evolving needs.

Section 5 would repeal SSL §§ 483-d through 483-f and the corresponding
children's plan provision in Mental Hygiene Law § 7.43.

Section 6 would amend SSL § 483-g to specify that one of the two chair-
persons designated by the governor for the Early Childhood Advisory
Council (ECAC) would be the executive director of CCF or his or her
designee.

Section 7 would set forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This proposal updates and clarifies the comprehensive, cross-systems
role of CCF. Technical corrections include updating the names of CCF
member state agencies. Specifically, CCF is composed of the following
member agencies: the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), the
Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), the Office of
Mental Health (OMR), the Office for People with Developmental Disabili-
ties (OPWDD), the Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS), the
State Education Department (SED), the Department of Health (DOH), the
Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), the Justice Center for the
Protection of People with Special Needs (Justice Center), the State
Office for the Aging (SOFA) and the Department of Labor (DOL). In recent
years, several of the CCF member agency names have been updated, such as
OASAS and OPWDD, and other agencies have been reconfigured, such as the
Justice Center (formerly the "Commission on Quality of Care for the
Mentally Disabled") and the "Office for Probation and Correctional
Alternatives" which had been a separate agency and now is a part of
DCJS. This proposal also adds the Developmental Disabilities Planning
Council (DDPC) to the group of CCF member state agencies, as the work of
DDPC aligns and supports the work of CCF around system change and inter-
agency capacity-building efforts that promote inclusion and self-deter-
mination for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

In addition, this proposal clarifies that CCF is led by an executive
director (not a "chief executive officer") and eliminates the reference
to CCF having a designated chair, which aligns with practice over the
past several decades.

This proposal also creates two standing interagency committees under
CCF. Together, the two committees will serve several purposes:  conduct-
ing the work charged to CCF in its establishing law and subsequent laws
adding to its responsibilities, aligning CCF's work with current needs,
and allowing for future flexibility for CCF to respond to emerging needs
as identified by the governor, the executive director of CCF and the
commissioners and directors of member state agencies.

The first of the two standing committees that this bill creates is the
Cross-Systems Committee for Children and Youth with Complex Needs to
address the needs of children and youth who require services from multi-
ple systems. This will be a commissioner-level committee to be chaired
by the executive director of CCF. This committee will unify existing
efforts and create a single point of accountability under the leadership
of CCF.

Several existing CCF initiatives that are part of current law would be
amended to reflect this committee. The work of the Coordinated Chil-
dren's Services Initiative and the Children's Plan requirements would be
carried out through this committee, as would the work of the Out-of-
State Placement Committee. The Outof-State Placement Committee was
created to reduce the number of children and youth from New York being
placed in out-of-state residential schools and programs. Since its
creation, out-of-state placements have dramatically decreased.1 To
ensure that out-of-state placements continue to be reduced, this legis-
lative proposal would have CCF, through its Cross-Systems Committee for
Children and Youth with Complex Needs, continue to monitor and report on
out-of-state placements. The Restraint and Crisis Intervention Technique
Committee in CCF statute also would be eliminated. However, if needed,
the Cross-Systems Committee could be expressly charged with focusing on
the issue of the use of restraints and seclusion in child-serving
programs. Notably, DDPC now is leading an interagency effort, with CCF
being an active member, to further reduce the use of restraints and
seclusion.

The second of the two standing committees that this bill creates is the
Early Care and Education Committee. Although CCF's mission and work
involve children of all ages, with a growing body of research in recent
years highlighting the importance of the early years in laying the foun-
dation for lifelong learning, behavior and health, this standing commit-
tee strengthens CCF's support for young children and responds to early
care and education experts who have been advocating for years for New
York State to create a single office for early childhood. Accordingly,
CCF would formally be responsible for leading the interagency Early Care
and Education Committee, which would meet regularly to address and
resolve any cross-system issues and barriers to serving young children.
As the New York State Final Report of the Child Care Availability Task
Force stated, this role would build on the existing interagency and
coordinating role of CCF. Currently, the Early Childhood Advisory Coun-
cil is codified under CCF and the following initiatives are housed at
CCF: the federal Preschool Development Birth through Five grant, the New
York State Head Start Collaboration Project, the federal Early Childhood
Comprehensive Systems: Prenatal to Three program and the Pyramid Model
for Supporting the Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Young
Children.

Since CCF was codified in 1977, it has worked to promote the success of
New York's children and families by facilitating collaboration among the
state's child-serving agencies. This collective approach to helping
children reach their full potential recognizes that children and fami-
lies touch multiple systems. With the implementation of these amendments
to the CCF statute, New York's child-serving delivery system would be
stronger and more effective so that every child and family have the
opportunity to thrive.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Departmental  120 (2021).

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred and eightieth day after it
shall become a law.

2021-S9004 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9004
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BRISPORT -- (at request of the Council on Children
   and Families) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to
   be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to the establish-
   ment and powers and duties of the council on children and families; to
   repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto; and to  repeal
   certain  provisions  of  the  mental hygiene law relating to the chil-
   dren's plan
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 483 of the social services law, as added by section
 2 of part F2 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, subdivision 1 as amended
 by chapter 672 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   §  483.  Council on children and families[; chair]. 1.  PURPOSE. There
 shall be a council on children and families, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO  IN
 THIS  ARTICLE AS THE "COUNCIL", THAT SHALL PROVIDE A FORUM FOR PROMOTING
 CROSS-SYSTEM APPROACHES TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS AND  EFFICIENCY  OF
 SERVICE  DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH, CONSIDER NEW OR EMERG-
 ING SERVICE NEEDS AND PROMOTE COORDINATED  AND  CONSISTENT  POLICIES  TO
 BEST MEET THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES.  THE COUN-
 CIL,  established  within  the  office  of  children and family services
 [consisting], SHALL  CONSIST  of  the  following  members:  the  [state]
 commissioner of children and family services, the commissioner of tempo-
 rary  and  disability assistance, the commissioner of mental health, the
 commissioner [of the office] for people with developmental disabilities,
 the commissioner of  [the  office  of  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse
 services]  ADDICTION  SERVICES  AND SUPPORTS, the commissioner of educa-
 tion, [the director of the office of probation and correctional alterna-
 tives,] the commissioner of health, the commissioner  of  [the  division
 of]  criminal  justice  services,  the  [state advocate for persons with
 disabilities]  EXECUTIVE  DIRECTOR  OF  THE  JUSTICE  CENTER   FOR   THE
 PROTECTION  OF  PEOPLE  WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, the director [of the office]
 for the aging, the commissioner of labor, and the [chair of the  commis-
 sion  on  quality  of care for the mentally disabled. The governor shall

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

                                                            LBD09968-02-1
 S. 9004                             2

 designate the chair of the council and  the  chief]  executive  [officer
 (CEO)] DIRECTOR OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES PLANNING COUNCIL.
   2.  STAFFING.  THE  GOVERNOR SHALL DESIGNATE THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
 THE COUNCIL. The [chair of the council] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, in consulta-
 tion with the commissioner  of  [the  office  of]  children  and  family
 services,  shall designate staff [from the office of children and family
 services to work full time in carrying out] TO CARRY OUT  the  functions
 of the council.
   3. MEETINGS. The council [may conduct its meetings and, by and through
 the  chair,]  SHALL  MEET  AS OFTEN AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE EXECUTIVE
 DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL OR THE COMMISSIONER  OR  DIRECTOR  OF  A  MEMBER
 AGENCY  BUT  IN  NO  EVENT  LESS THAN ANNUALLY TO perform its powers and
 duties [notwithstanding the absence of a quorum; provided, however  that
 no  action  may  be  taken by the council without the concurrence of the
 chair].
   § 2. Section 483-a of the social services law, as added by  section  2
 of  part  F2  of  chapter  62 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 483-a. Utilization of other agency  assistance.  To  effectuate  the
 purposes  of  this  article,  any  department,  division, board, bureau,
 commission or agency of the state or of any political subdivision there-
 of shall, at the request of the [chair] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE  COUN-
 CIL, provide to the council such facilities, assistance and data as will
 enable the council TO properly [to] carry out its powers and duties [and
 those of the chair].
   §  3.  Section 483-b of the social services law, as added by section 2
 of part F2 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   § 483-b. Powers and duties of council. 1. As used in this section, the
 terms  "care",  "services",  AND  "programs"[,  and "services programs"]
 shall mean and include care, maintenance, services and programs provided
 to children AND YOUTH of the state and their families by  or  under  the
 jurisdiction  of a member agency. The term "member agency" shall mean an
 agency headed by a member of the council.
   2. The council shall have the following powers:
   (a) to identify problems and  deficiencies  in  residential  care  and
 community-based services AND programs and, on a selective basis, to plan
 and make recommendations to the governor for the remedy of such problems
 and  deficiencies  and  for  the  development  of  programs  of care and
 services for children AND YOUTH and their families;
   (b) to make recommendations to improve  coordination  of  program  and
 fiscal  resources  of state-local, public-voluntary care and services to
 children AND YOUTH and their families;
   (c) to [coordinate program]  FACILITATE  INTERAGENCY  COOPERATION  AND
 COORDINATION  OF PROGRAMS and [management] research [of] BY member agen-
 cies for the purpose of monitoring, evaluating or  redirecting  existing
 care  [and],  services  AND  programs  or  developing  new  SERVICES AND
 programs, and to conduct, sponsor, or direct member agencies  to  under-
 take such research or other activities;
   (d)  to  review  and resolve differences, if any, concerning rules and
 regulations of each member agency insofar as such rules and  regulations
 impact on CARE, services OR programs provided by other member agencies;
   (e) to promulgate, amend and rescind rules and regulations relating to
 the administration and performance of the powers and duties of the coun-
 cil pursuant to this article;
 S. 9004                             3

   (f)  to  review  [significant] EXISTING state and locally operated and
 supported [care and] services[,] AND PROGRAMS AND  plans  and  proposals
 for  new services AND PROGRAMS for children AND YOUTH and THEIR families
 to determine whether such services AND PROGRAMS are planned, created and
 delivered in a coordinated, effective and comprehensive manner;
   (g)  to  perform  all other things necessary [and convenient] to carry
 out the functions, powers and duties of the council  and  to  effectuate
 the purposes of this article; and
   (h)  to accept and expend any grants, awards, or other funds or appro-
 priations as may be available to the council to effectuate the  purposes
 of this article, subject to the approval of the director of the budget.
   3.  [The  council  shall review the budget requests of member agencies
 insofar as such budgets jointly affect services  programs  for  children
 and  their  families and shall make comments and recommendations thereon
 to the relevant member agencies and the governor.
   4.] (a) The council shall meet on a regular  basis  to  implement  the
 purposes  of this article and to discuss and resolve disputes, including
 but not limited to disputes between member agencies, relating  to  their
 functions,  powers  and duties over the provision of services to partic-
 ular children AND YOUTH and their families or to categories of  children
 [or child and family problems] AND YOUTH when all the internal statutory
 and administrative grievance or appeal procedures applicable to a member
 agency  have  failed to finally resolve such dispute. [The council shall
 direct each member agency to establish and maintain  such  grievance  or
 appeal procedures.]
   (b) The council shall direct member agencies to provide an evaluation,
 including  a diagnostic study, of a particular child OR YOUTH and his or
 her family when there is a dispute  as  to  the  appropriate  agency  or
 program  in  which the child OR YOUTH should be placed or from which the
 child OR YOUTH and his or  her  family  should  receive  services,  and,
 following  such  study,  the council shall order placement of a child OR
 YOUTH with a member agency, or with a social services official, or order
 a member agency to provide or require the provision of services  to  the
 child  OR  YOUTH  and  his or her family in a manner consistent with the
 legal authority of the member agency or  social  services  official,  as
 applicable.
   (c)  The  council  shall  direct  member  agencies to take appropriate
 direct action or to exercise their supervisory powers over  local  offi-
 cials and agencies, in the resolution of such disputes.
   (d)  The  duty of the council to resolve disputes involving particular
 children OR YOUTH may be performed  on  a  selective  basis  within  the
 discretion  of  the council. Exercise of jurisdiction over such disputes
 by the council or appeals to the council therefor shall not be  required
 as  a  condition precedent to the initiation of a proceeding pursuant to
 article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.
   (e) A dispute relative to which member agency shall have the responsi-
 bility for determining  and  recommending  adult  services  pursuant  to
 sections 7.37 and 13.37 of the mental hygiene law, section three hundred
 ninety-eight-c of [the social services law] THIS CHAPTER, or subdivision
 ten  of  section  forty-four hundred three of the education law shall be
 resolved in accordance with this subdivision.
   [5.] 4. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state  law  to  the
 contrary,  the  council  may  request any member agency to submit to the
 council and such member agency shall submit, to the extent permitted  by
 federal law, all information in the form and manner and at such times as
 S. 9004                             4
 
 the council may require that it is appropriate to the purposes and oper-
 ation of the council.
   (b)  The council shall protect the confidentiality of individual iden-
 tifying information submitted to or provided by the council, and prevent
 access thereto, by, or the distribution thereof to, persons not  author-
 ized by law.
   §  4.  Section  483-c of the social services law is REPEALED and a new
 section 483-c is added to read as follows:
   § 483-C. COUNCIL COMMITTEES. 1. THE COUNCIL SHALL  HAVE  TWO  STANDING
 COMMITTEES:  (A)  A  CROSS-SYSTEMS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH
 COMPLEX NEEDS; AND (B) AN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE. IN ACCORD-
 ANCE WITH THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, OTHER COMMITTEES MAY  BE  FORMED
 BY  THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL OR THE REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR
 OR A COMMISSIONER OR DIRECTOR OF A MEMBER AGENCY.
   2. THERE SHALL BE A CROSS-SYSTEMS COMMITTEE  FOR  CHILDREN  AND  YOUTH
 WITH  COMPLEX NEEDS TO SUPPORT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COORDINATED SYSTEM
 OF CARE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
 FROM MULTIPLE SYSTEMS AND TO FACILITATE COORDINATION AMONG MEMBER  AGEN-
 CIES TO BETTER SERVE SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES.
   (A)  SUCH  COMMITTEE  SHALL  MEET  AS OFTEN AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE
 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL OR A COMMISSIONER  OR  DIRECTOR  OF  A
 MEMBER  AGENCY  AND SHALL BE COMPRISED OF COMMISSIONERS AND DIRECTORS OR
 THEIR DESIGNEES FROM THE FOLLOWING MEMBER AGENCIES: THE OFFICE OF  CHIL-
 DREN  AND  FAMILY  SERVICES, THE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH, THE OFFICE FOR
 PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, THE DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH,  THE
 OFFICE  OF  ADDICTION SERVICES AND SUPPORTS, THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILI-
 TIES PLANNING COUNCIL, AND THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
   (B) SUCH COMMITTEE SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION AMONG
 STATE AND  LOCAL  HEALTH,  MENTAL  HEALTH,  DEVELOPMENTAL  DISABILITIES,
 EDUCATION,  CHILD  WELFARE,  JUVENILE  JUSTICE, AND OTHER HUMAN SERVICES
 GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND  STAKEHOLDERS  BY  COORDINATING  CROSS-SYSTEMS
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING, RECOMMENDING THE USE OF FUNDING MECH-
 ANISMS  TO  MORE FLEXIBLY SUPPORT THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH
 AND THEIR FAMILIES REQUIRING SERVICES FROM MULTIPLE SYSTEMS,  AND  OTHER
 APPROACHES  TO  PROMOTING  INTERAGENCY  COOPERATION  TO BEST SUPPORT THE
 NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES.
   (C) SUCH COMMITTEE SHALL PROVIDE AN ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT,  BY  APRIL
 THIRTIETH  OF  EACH  YEAR, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE AN UPDATE ON CHILDREN AND
 YOUTH PLACED IN RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS AND SCHOOLS  OUTSIDE  OF  NEW  YORK
 STATE AND OTHER COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES.
   3. THERE SHALL BE AN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE
 ALIGNMENT OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES
 TO PROMOTE HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT AND SCHOOL READINESS.
   (A)  SUCH  COMMITTEE  SHALL  MEET  AS OFTEN AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE
 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL OR THE COMMISSIONER OR DIRECTOR  OF  A
 MEMBER  AGENCY  AND SHALL BE COMPRISED OF COMMISSIONERS AND DIRECTORS OR
 THEIR DESIGNEES FROM THE FOLLOWING MEMBER AGENCIES:  THE OFFICE OF CHIL-
 DREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
 HEALTH, THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE, THE OFFICE OF
 MENTAL  HEALTH,  AND  THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILI-
 TIES. THE COMMITTEE SHALL BE INFORMED BY THE WORK AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF
 THE EARLY CHILDHOOD ADVISORY COUNCIL  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
 FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE-G OF THIS ARTICLE.
   (B)  COMMITTEE  MEMBERS,  TO  THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, SHALL NOTIFY THE
 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL WHEN PROPOSING NEW POLICIES, RULES, OR
 REGULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBER AGENCIES. THE  EXECU-
 S. 9004                             5
 
 TIVE  DIRECTOR  OF  THE COUNCIL SHALL DISTRIBUTE SUCH PROPOSED POLICIES,
 RULES, OR REGULATIONS FOR REVIEW BY COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO  SOLICIT  FEED-
 BACK, WITHIN GOVERNING TIME PERIODS, ON THE POSSIBLE CROSS-SYSTEM ALIGN-
 MENT OF SUCH PROPOSALS.
   (C)  SUCH  COMMITTEE  SHALL  PROVIDE  AN ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT BY MAY
 THIRTIETH OF EACH YEAR.
   § 5. Sections 483-d, 483-e and 483-f of the social  services  law  are
 REPEALED.
   § 6. Section 7.43 of the mental hygiene law is REPEALED.
   § 7. Subdivisions 2 and 6 of section 483-g of the social services law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  14 of the laws of 2017, are amended to read as
 follows:
   2. The governor shall also designate the two chairpersons to the early
 childhood advisory council ONE OF WHOM SHALL BE THE  EXECUTIVE  DIRECTOR
 OF THE COUNCIL OR HIS OR HER DESIGNEE.
   6.  The  EXECUTIVE  DIRECTOR  OF  THE  COUNCIL, ON BEHALF OF THE early
 childhood advisory council shall submit  a  statewide  strategic  report
 addressing the activities described in subdivision three of this section
 to  the  director  of the head start collaboration office, the governor,
 the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of  the  senate.
 After  submission  of  a statewide strategic report, the early childhood
 advisory council shall meet periodically to review any implementation of
 the recommendations in such report and any changes in  state  and  local
 needs.
   § 8. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.

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