Bill Text: NY A10359 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10359 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for reimbursement of expenses for childcare and dependent care for volunteer members of public bodies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-21 - referred to governmental operations [A10359 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10359-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10359

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 21, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by   COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at  request  of  M.  of  A.
          Bichotte Hermelyn) -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to amend the general municipal law and the public officers law,
          in relation to childcare and dependent care reimbursement  for  volun-
          teer members of public bodies

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

     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 72-s to read as follows:
     3    §  72-s.  Childcare  and  dependent  care  reimbursement for volunteer
     4  members of public bodies. 1. For purposes of this section, "public body"
     5  shall have the same meaning as such  term  is  defined  in  section  one
     6  hundred two of the public officers law.
     7    2.  Volunteer  members of a public body shall be reimbursed for actual
     8  childcare and dependent care expenses incurred during the performance of
     9  his, her, or their duties serving on such public body, including but not
    10  limited to time spent attending regular  or  special  meetings  of  such
    11  public body.
    12    3. Upon the discharge of his, her, or their official duties, if appli-
    13  cable, a volunteer member of a public body shall submit documentation of
    14  the  costs  of  childcare or dependent care expenses incurred during the
    15  performance of their duties to the appropriate public officer  or  other
    16  person  designated  to receive documentation for financial reimbursement
    17  or the municipality or political subdivision which oversees such  public
    18  body or appoints its members.
    19    §  2.  Section  64  of  the  public officers law is amended to read as
    20  follows:
    21    § 64. Payment of expenses of public officers. Every public officer who
    22  is not allowed any compensation for his, her or their services shall  be
    23  paid  his,  her  or  their  actual  expenses necessarily incurred in the
    24  discharge of his, her or their official duties, including childcare  and
    25  dependent care expenses pursuant to section seventy-two-s of the general
    26  municipal law.
    27    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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