Allows child day care providers an extension of time of the original 90 day period to make necessary changes or accommodations to their facility to meet licensing requirements; grants the office of children and family services authority to grant additional extensions of time, if necessary.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7949
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 allowing child
day care providers an extension of time to make necessary changes or
accommodations to their facility to meet licensing requirements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 390 of the social
2 services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iii) to read as
3 follows:
4 (iii) If the office of children and family services determines, after
5 the completion of an inspection of a child day care provider's facility
6 pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, that such day care
7 provider does not meet the necessary licensing requirements because such
8 facility requires necessary changes or accommodations, the office of
9 children and family services shall extend the ninety-day period set
10 forth in 18 NYCRR 414.2(c) to allow such day care provider to correct or
11 make any required necessary changes without having to restart the
12 licensing process from the initial application submission. After an
13 initial extension has been provided pursuant to this section, the office
14 of children and family services shall have the authority to grant addi-
15 tional extensions of time as necessary.
16 § 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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