Bill Text: NY A09811 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the office of children and family services to establish a center for fatherhood initiatives to issue grants to any and all initiatives regarding the promotion and advancement of fatherhood, including but not limited to all marginalized fatherhood groups to help expand opportunities to improve parenting knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - referred to children and families [A09811 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09811-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9811

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. DAIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing  the  office
          of  children  and family services to establish a center for fatherhood
          initiatives

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 501-i
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 501-i. The center for  fatherhood  initiatives.    There  is  hereby
     4  established within the office of children and family services the center
     5  for  fatherhood initiatives. The center for fatherhood initiatives shall
     6  issue grants to any and all  initiatives  regarding  the  promotion  and
     7  advancement of fatherhood, including but not limited to all marginalized
     8  fatherhood  groups  to  help  expand  opportunities to improve parenting
     9  knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy.    The  center  for  fatherhood
    10  initiatives  shall  also  provide such services. The commissioner of the
    11  office of children and family services shall  promulgate  any  necessary
    12  rules  and regulations for the establishment, operation, and maintenance
    13  of the center for fatherhood initiatives.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14990-05-4