Directs the office of children and family services to establish a center for fatherhood initiatives to issue grants to initiatives regarding the promotion and advancement of fatherhood, including but not limited to all underserved fatherhood groups to help expand opportunities to improve parenting knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5228--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, BROUK, FERNANDEZ, LIU -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee on Children and
Families in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the office
of children and family services to establish a center for fatherhood
initiatives
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 501-i
2 to read as follows:
3 § 501-i. The center for fatherhood initiatives. There is hereby
4 established within the office of children and family services the center
5 for fatherhood initiatives. The center for fatherhood initiatives shall
6 issue grants to initiatives regarding the promotion and advancement of
7 fatherhood, including but not limited to all underserved fatherhood
8 groups to help expand opportunities to improve parenting knowledge,
9 attitudes, and self-efficacy. The center for fatherhood initiatives may
10 also provide such services. The commissioner of the office of children
11 and family services may promulgate any necessary rules and regulations
12 for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of the center for
13 fatherhood initiatives.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00316-04-6
