Bill Text: NY S04599 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the fingerprinting of employees of informal child care providers; defines terms; provides that an informal child care provider means a program in a facility, other than a residence, in which child care is provided on a regular basis and is not required to be licensed by or registered with the office or licensed by the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S04599 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04599-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4599

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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  fingerprinting
          employees of informal child care providers

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

     1    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  390-n to read as follows:
     3    § 390-n. Fingerprinting employees of informal child care providers. 1.
     4  For  purposes  of  this  section, "informal child care provider" means a
     5  program in a facility, other than a residence,  in which child  care  is
     6  provided  on  a regular basis and is not required to be licensed by   or
     7  registered with the  office  or  licensed  by  the  city  of  New  York.
     8  Informal child care providers include, but are not limited to:
     9    (a) nursery schools and programs for pre-school-aged children operated
    10  by  non-profit agencies or organizations or private proprietary agencies
    11  which provide services for three or less hours per day;
    12    (b) child care programs caring for not more than six school-aged chil-
    13  dren  during  non-school   hours.   For purposes   of   this  paragraph,
    14  "school-aged  children"  means  children under thirteen years of age who
    15  are enrolled in kindergarten or a higher grade;
    16    (c)  child  care  programs caring for toddlers from eighteen months to
    17  thirty-six months of age for three or less hours per day; and
    18    (d) child care programs caring for infants up to  eighteen  months  of
    19  age for three or less hours per day.
    20    2. Any informal child care provider may, as a  condition  of  securing
    21  employment  or of continuing employment, require that all of its employ-
    22  ees be fingerprinted. Such fingerprints shall be submitted to the  divi-
    23  sion  of  criminal  justice services for a state criminal history record
    24  check, as defined in subdivision one of section three  thousand  thirty-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05785-01-3
        S. 4599                             2

     1  five of the education law, and may be submitted to the federal bureau of
     2  investigation for a national criminal history record check.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.