Requires child day care centers, family day care homes, and any child day care provider notify the municipality in which they intend to operate of their intent to request such a license or registration provided such child day care center, family day care home, or child day care provider is located within a city with a population of one million or more.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5858
SPONSOR: Slater TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring child
day care centers, family day care homes, and any child day care provider
to notify the municipality in which they intend to operate of their
intent to request such a license or registration
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Require that prior to requesting a license to operate a daycare, the
provider must notify the municipality in which they intend to operate.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 - Prior to request a license or registration from the office
of children and family services, child day care centers, family day care
homes, and any child day care provider shall notify the municipality in
which they intend to operate of their intent to request such a license
or registration. This paragraph shall not apply to any child day care
centers, family day care homes, and child day care providers located
wholly within a city with a ' population of one million or more.
Section 2 - Effective Date.
JUSTIFICATION:
When someone wants to open a new daycare, they need to apply for a
license. Once the application has been submitted the applicant will
often times contact the municipality that they intend to operate in to
check the status of their application.'Currently, the municipalities are
unaware of the submission of these applications, as such they are unable
to help the applicant. This bill aims to fix that issue and to increase
transparency between the municipality and the appliCant in order to
establish a more mutually beneficial relationship with the community.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5858
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring child
day care centers, family day care homes, and any child day care
provider to notify the municipality in which they intend to operate of
their intent to request such a license or registration
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 390 of the social services law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
3 (f) Prior to requesting a license or registration from the office of
4 children and family services, child day care centers, family day care
5 homes, and any child day care provider shall notify the municipality in
6 which they intend to operate of their intent to request such a license
7 or registration. This paragraph shall not apply to any child day care
8 centers, family day care homes, and child day care providers located
9 wholly within a city with a population of one million or more.
10 § 2. 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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