Bill Text: NY S02495 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Tasks the child care availability taskforce with evaluation of the office of children and family services' regulations regarding minimum supervision ratios based on group size for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S02495 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02495-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2495

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  tasking  the
          child  care  availability  taskforce  with evaluation of the office of
          children and family services'  regulations  regarding  minimum  super-
          vision ratios based on group size for infants, toddlers and preschool-
          ers

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

     1    Section 1. Legislative findings and  intent.  The  legislature  hereby
     2  declares  that  many  New Yorkers face the difficulty of living within a
     3  child care desert. New York State has begun the process of remedying the
     4  issue of the lack of child care through the creation of the  child  care
     5  availability  taskforce.  The  legislature  has an obligation to include
     6  under their jurisdiction an evaluation of regulations regarding staffing
     7  ratios set forth by the office of children and family services.
     8    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 390-k of the  social  services  law,  as
     9  amended  by  chapter  133  of  the  laws  of 2022, is amended to read as
    10  follows:
    11    3. The taskforce shall:
    12    (a) examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child care  in  New
    13  York state;
    14    (b) advise the state in developing an implementation framework leading
    15  to  a phased-in rollout of universal child care using existing state and
    16  federal resources;
    17    (c) recommend potential solutions,  partnerships,  or  other  ways  to
    18  address  chronic  child care workforce issues and other concerns identi-
    19  fied in the course of the examination required by this subdivision;
    20    (d) assess the implementation of policies supported by federally fund-
    21  ed programs through various stimulus packages; [and]

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05332-01-3
        S. 2495                             2

     1    (e) evaluate the effectiveness of the office of  children  and  family
     2  services'  regulations  regarding  minimum  supervision  ratios based on
     3  group size for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; and
     4    (f) anything else the taskforce deems necessary.
     5    §  3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
     6  ments to section 390-k of the social services law made by section two of
     7  this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
     8  repealed therewith.