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Assembly Bill A9529

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers

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2023-A9529 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8426
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §390, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A612, S278

2023-A9529 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes certain requirements on what the office of children and family services can determine to be an appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers.

2023-A9529 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9529
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 20, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HEVESI, WALLACE -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the  appropriate
   staff/child  ratios  for  family day care homes, group family day care
   homes, school age day care programs and day care centers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2-a of section 390 of the
 social services law, as added by chapter 416 of the  laws  of  2000,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  The office of children and family services shall promulgate regu-
 lations  which  establish  minimum  quality  program  requirements   for
 licensed  and  registered child day care homes, programs and facilities.
 Such requirements shall include but not be limited to (i) the  need  for
 age  appropriate  activities,  materials and equipment to promote cogni-
 tive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional,  language  and
 recreational  development  of  children  in  care in a safe, healthy and
 caring environment (ii) principles of childhood development (iii) appro-
 priate staff/child ratios for family day care homes,  group  family  day
 care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers[, provided
 however  that  such  staff/child ratios shall not be less stringent than
 applicable staff/child ratios as set forth in part  four  hundred  four-
 teen, four hundred sixteen, four hundred seventeen or four hundred eigh-
 teen  of title eighteen of the New York code of rules and regulations as
 of January first, two thousand] (iv) appropriate levels  of  supervision
 of  children  in  care  (v)  minimum  standards  for sanitation, health,
 infection control, nutrition, buildings and equipment, safety,  security
 procedures,  first  aid,  fire prevention, fire safety, evacuation plans
 and drills, prevention of child abuse and maltreatment, staff qualifica-
 tions and training, record keeping, and child behavior management.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13682-01-3

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