| NY | A05536 | Intro
25% | Increases salaries for foster care direct care workers; makes an appropriation therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A05560 | Intro
25% | Requires training in developmental disability awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity and implicit bias for child protective services workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A05434 | Intro
25% | Requires the office of children and family services to provide luggage to youth in foster care; provides that such luggage shall be distributed to social services districts for distribution to foster care youth; requires the office of children and fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A05352 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of children and family services to establish an outdoor, nature-based child care program to allow for the operation of licensed outdoor, nature-based child care classrooms which provide early learning services for preschool or scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A05413 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "help parents find and afford child care act"; provides for child care subsidies to be administered under the child care assistance program; establishes a tri-share child care program; establishes an at-home infant care program; makes rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A05135 | Intro
25% | Provides all child protective service employees with supportive mental health services and resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A05084 | Intro
25% | Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of certain families applying for child care assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A05154 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of children and family services to study, make recommendations on and report on child day care and child care assistance and the availability of funding therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | S00789 | Engross
50% | Relates to findings in child abuse or neglect proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A01001 | Intro
25% | Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to the applicable payment rate established by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04785 | Intro
25% | Provides for free criminal history background checks for mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04753 | Intro
25% | Establishes Bella's Law which calls for an investigation into possible domestic violence or abuse for persons who have been accused of animal abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04534 | Intro
25% | Relates to the establishment of a non-traditional hours model; provides that the office of children and family services shall: create a non-traditional hours model within a year, publish its findings on its website, and conduct a review of child care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04392 | Intro
25% | Establishes the independent office of the child advocate to ensure the protection and promotion of the rights of children in the care of any state agency or local social services district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04598 | Intro
25% | Requires certain persons and officials required to report suspected child abuse and maltreatment to complete ongoing training; requires all teachers, school superintendents and licensed professionals who are required to report cases of child abuse an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04557 | Intro
25% | Relates to written notification to schools of a student's placement in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04362 | Intro
25% | Extends liability of certain agencies for negligence in the placement of a child in the authorized agency's custody, or in the supervision of a foster home or foster parents; extends jurisdiction of the court of claims to certain claims for injuries ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04548 | Intro
25% | Requires the mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment by certain employees of the metropolitan transportation authority; requires such employees to complete coursework or training regarding the identification and reporting of chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04530 | Intro
25% | Requires certain child day care centers to have video surveillance in certain areas occupied by children who are three years of age or younger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04266 | Intro
25% | Authorizes child care assistance to be made available to certain victims of domestic violence who are in need of assistance in order for a parent or caretaker relative to engage in work or participate in work activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04097 | Intro
25% | Requires the use of canines trained to detect drugs and firearms during inspections of day care facilities or premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04122 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and directs the office of children and family services to conduct a study on the family assessment response program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03899 | Intro
25% | Requires inspections of child day care homes, programs and facilities include the full premises; requires providers of a family day care home or group family day care home to disclose to the office of children and family services all persons who resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04045 | Intro
25% | Relates to findings in child abuse or neglect proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03970 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the timeline and details needed for child protective services to declare whether a report is "indicated" or "unfounded" including examining past family history.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A04003 | Intro
25% | Requires one caregiver for every two children under eighteen months of age in group family day care homes and family day care homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03636 | Intro
25% | Establishes a division of early childhood within the office of children and family services to coordinate, consolidate and integrate early childhood programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03481 | Intro
25% | Provides that in the event child protective services receives a duplicate report on an open case that has not been founded, indicated or referred to services, such duplicate report shall merge with the open case and remain open an additional thirty d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03491 | Intro
25% | Provides for a formal process for a parent or legal guardian to request the issuance of an AMBER alert.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03553 | Intro
25% | Relates to the caseloads of preventative services caseworkers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03317 | Intro
25% | Protects a parent who is a victim of domestic violence from having children removed from their custody if they reported the abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03174 | Intro
25% | Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03190 | Intro
25% | Requires licensed day care facilities to contact a child's parent or guardian if they are absent from day care, with no prior notice given, within thirty minutes after such child is recorded as absent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A03195 | Intro
25% | Permits mentoring programs to conduct background clearances of prospective employees and volunteers to determine whether any such person has been reported for child abuse or maltreatment or is on the sex offender registry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02708 | Intro
25% | Requires child care resource and referral program participants to establish registries of substitute staff for child care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02620 | Intro
25% | Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02451 | Intro
25% | Factors domestic violence convictions into family court decisions regarding visitation, custody and parental rights; provides that any parent undergoing mandatory, batterer specific rehabilitation measures shall only be granted supervised visitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02441 | Intro
25% | Relates to the confidentiality and expungement of records in juvenile delinquency cases in the family court; requires certain records to be expunged automatically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02265 | Intro
25% | Relates to the establishment of a waiver for child care learning pods; provides that unlicensed and unregulated child care learning pods may operate if there are otherwise no violations of laws or codes, rules, and regulations of New York and such ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02373 | Intro
25% | Requires the office of children and family services implement a regional cost factor analysis for child care subsidies; requires social services districts implement such findings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02218 | Intro
25% | Prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage to be eligible for child care assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02135 | Intro
25% | Eliminates penalties for mandated reporters who fail to report suspected abuse or neglect of children or people with special needs; repeals certain provisions of law related thereto.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02225 | Intro
25% | Prohibits public funding to facilities or programs using aversive interventions on children; establishes a holistic autism spectrum disorder treatment center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A01760 | Intro
25% | Establishes the youth in progress advisory board and regional teams for adolescents in foster care to provide mentorship of youths in foster care; requires reporting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A01990 | Intro
25% | Expands the list of those able to commence proceedings alleging that a child is a destitute child to include the child in question, if over 14 years of age, and other persons on the court's direction; makes related provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02053 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of children and family services to develop and post a list of eligible substitute day care staff who can be used by a child day care provider in a time of need.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A02042 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the commissioner of the office of children and family services to conduct a study that examines barriers to the creation of child care providers and provide recommendations thereto to facilitate the creation of new child care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A01955 | Intro
25% | Requires a parent or other person legally responsible for a minor and the law guardian appointed pursuant to law to be present during questioning by a peace or police officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A01629 | Intro
25% | Includes organizations and programs that provide community based services to individuals under twenty-one in the definition of provider or provider agency regarding the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
| NY | A01604 | Intro
25% | Relates to the provision of criminal history background checks free of charge to mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Assembly Children and Families Committee |
