Relates to information provided to unlicensed or unregistered child day care providers by the office of children and family services; requires all applications for a license/registration to be available in several languages.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5113
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, SIMOTAS, RIVERA, DE LA ROSA, BLAKE,
GIGLIO, COOK, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT, DAVILA, MOSLEY, D'URSO, RAIA, ORTIZ,
WILLIAMS, HYNDMAN, VANEL, BARRON, DICKENS, CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. ABBATE, SIMON, WALSH -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to information
provided to unlicensed or unregistered child day care providers by the
office of children and family services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 390 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
3 5-a. The office of children and family services shall provide all
4 applications and forms necessary to become a licensed or registered
5 child day care provider in English, French, Polish, and the six most
6 common non-English languages spoken by individuals with limited-English
7 proficiency in the state of New York, based on United States census
8 data.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09043-01-9