NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7135
SPONSOR: Gunther TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the social services law, in relation
to creating the child care regulatory review task force
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To relieve unnecessary burdens on child day care providers so that they
are better able to maintain a stable, quality program.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one of the bill would create the Child Care Regulatory Review
Task Force to review statutory and regulatory requirements for child day
care providers.
Section two of the bill would set forth the members of the Task Force:
the Commissioner of the Office for Children and Family Services, the
Commissioner of the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the
Commissioner of the Department of Health, the Commissioner of the Admin-
istration for Children's Services and the Commissioner of the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene, or their designees.
Section three of the bill would set forth the duties of the Task Force,
including holding one public hearing, reviewing regulatory and statutory
requirements and issuing a report with recommendations to the Legisla-
ture three years from the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Child care providers experience administrative burdens as they work to
maintain compliance with the various federal and state regulatory,
licensing, and quality enhancement program requirements. Sometimes a
provider may have to submit duplicative or very similar paperwork to
multiple agencies. This can be time consuming and costly especially for
small providers without the financial or personnel resources to dedicate
to administrative activities. Depending on the circumstance, these
obstacles may impose an unnecessary deterrent to maintaining a child
care business. Therefore, this bill would create a task force of rele-
vant State agencies to identify ways to streamline and reduce the exist-
ing requirements.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2013-14: A8924-A/S7192 Veto Memo 500
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Undetermined
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7135
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to creating the
child care regulatory review task force
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-j to read as follows:
3 § 390-j. The child care regulatory review task force. 1. Duties. (a)
4 Pursuant to the provisions of this section, the child care regulatory
5 review task force shall review processes and regulatory, statutory and
6 programmatic requirements, placed on child care providers which are
7 regulated by the office of children and family services, that are dupli-
8 cative or unnecessary and create administrative burdens for child care
9 providers;
10 (b) Hold, at minimum, one public hearing to obtain oral and/or written
11 testimony from interested stakeholders;
12 (c) Develop and propose recommendations for the streamlining of
13 current processes and requirements which are identified as duplicative
14 or burdensome;
15 (d) Such recommendations shall be submitted to the legislature annual-
16 ly.
17 2. Membership. (a) The task force shall consist of, at a minimum, the
18 commissioner of the office of children and family services; the commis-
19 sioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance; the commis-
20 sioner of the department of health and the commissioner of the New York
21 city department of health and mental hygiene.
22 (b) The members of the child care regulatory task force shall not
23 receive any compensation. However, the members shall be entitled to
24 reimbursement for any necessary expenses incurred in connection with the
25 performance of their duties.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. Every state department, agency, division, board, bureau, commission
2 and any other relevant entity shall provide all necessary assistance
3 and/or information to the child care regulatory review task force to
4 carry out its duties as authorized by subdivision one of this section,
5 unless otherwise protected by law.
6 4. Any information obtained by a member of the child care regulatory
7 review task force while carrying out any duties as prescribed in subdi-
8 vision one of this section shall only be utilized in his or her capacity
9 as a member of the child care regulatory review task force.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
