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A00612 Summary:

A00612 Actions:

A00612 Committee Votes:

Committee:CHILDREN AND FAMILIES   Chair:Hevesi      
DATE:02/25/2025AYE/NAY:17/0  Action: Favorable         
Hevesi
Aye
Maher
Aye
Davila
Aye
Pirozzolo
Aye
Anderson
Aye
Jensen
Aye
Clark
Aye
Bologna
Aye
Lunsford
Aye
Molitor
Aye
Meeks
Aye
Gonzalez-Rojas
Aye
Mitaynes
Aye
Chandler-Waterm
Aye
Lee
Aye
Lasher
Aye
Wieder
Aye

A00612 Floor Votes:

A00612 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           612
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. HEVESI, MEEKS, EPSTEIN, SLATER -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Children and Families
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the  appropriate
          staff/child  ratios  for  family day care homes, group family day care
          homes, school age day care programs and day care centers
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2-a of section 390 of the
     2  social services law, as added by chapter 416 of the  laws  of  2000,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  The office of children and family services shall promulgate regu-
     5  lations  which  establish  minimum  quality  program  requirements   for
     6  licensed  and  registered child day care homes, programs and facilities.
     7  Such requirements shall include but not be limited to (i) the  need  for
     8  age  appropriate  activities,  materials and equipment to promote cogni-
     9  tive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional,  language  and
    10  recreational  development  of  children  in  care in a safe, healthy and
    11  caring environment (ii) principles of childhood development (iii) appro-
    12  priate staff/child ratios for family day care homes,  group  family  day
    13  care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers[, provided
    14  however  that  such  staff/child ratios shall not be less stringent than
    15  applicable staff/child ratios as set forth in part  four  hundred  four-
    16  teen, four hundred sixteen, four hundred seventeen or four hundred eigh-
    17  teen  of title eighteen of the New York code of rules and regulations as
    18  of January first, two thousand] (iv) appropriate levels  of  supervision
    19  of  children  in  care  (v)  minimum  standards  for sanitation, health,
    20  infection control, nutrition, buildings and equipment, safety,  security
    21  procedures,  first  aid,  fire prevention, fire safety, evacuation plans
    22  and drills, prevention of child abuse and maltreatment, staff qualifica-
    23  tions and training, record keeping, and child behavior management.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00928-01-5