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Assembly Bill A10959A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the provision of child care services on school grounds during school and non-school hours

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2025-A10959 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10247
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §414, Ed L

2025-A10959 - Summary

Authorizes the provision of child care services on school grounds during school and non-school hours.

2025-A10959 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10959
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the provision of child
   care services on school grounds during school hours
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 414 of the educa-
 tion law, as amended by chapter 106 of the laws of 2000, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (i)  To provide child care services during [non-school] SCHOOL hours[,
 or to provide child care services during school hours for  the  children
 of  pupils  attending the schools of the district and, if there is addi-
 tional space available, for children of employees of the district,  and,
 if there is further additional space available, the Cobleskill-Richmond-
 ville  school  district  shall  provide child care services for children
 ages three and four who need child care assistance due to lack of suffi-
 cient child care spaces]. Such  determination  shall  be  made  by  each
 district's board of education, provided that the cost of such care shall
 not  be a school district charge but shall be paid by the person respon-
 sible for the support of such child; the local social services  district
 as authorized by law; or by any other public or private voluntary source
 or any combination thereof.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect eighteen months after it shall have
 become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15428-01-6

2025-A10959A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10247
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §414, Ed L

2025-A10959A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the provision of child care services on school grounds during school and non-school hours.

2025-A10959A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10959--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the provision of child
   care services on school grounds during school and non-school hours

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 414 of the educa-
 tion  law,  as amended by chapter 106 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (i) To provide  child  care  services  during  SCHOOL  AND  non-school
 hours[,  or  to  provide child care services during school hours for the
 children of pupils attending the schools of the district and,  if  there
 is  additional  space  available,  for  children  of  employees  of  the
 district, and, if there  is  further  additional  space  available,  the
 Cobleskill-Richmondville   school  district  shall  provide  child  care
 services for children ages three and four who need child care assistance
 due to lack of sufficient child care spaces]. Such  determination  shall
 be made by each district's board of education, provided that the cost of
 such care shall not be a school district charge but shall be paid by the
 person  responsible  for  the  support  of  such child; the local social
 services district as authorized by  law;  or  by  any  other  public  or
 private voluntary source or any combination thereof.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect eighteen months after it shall have
 become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15428-02-6

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