STATE OF NEW YORK
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7167
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 21, 2025
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Introduced by 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 the volunteer member's duties serving on such public body, including but
10 not limited to time spent attending regular or special meetings of such
11 public body.
12 3. Upon the discharge of the volunteer member's official duties, if
13 applicable, a volunteer member of a public body shall submit documenta-
14 tion of the costs of childcare or dependent care expenses incurred
15 during the performance of their duties to the appropriate public officer
16 or other person designated to receive documentation for financial
17 reimbursement or the municipality or political subdivision which over-
18 sees such public 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] their services shall be paid
23 [his] their actual expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of
24 [his] their official duties, including childcare and dependent care
25 expenses pursuant to section seventy-two-s of the general municipal law.
26 § 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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