Amd §§483-h, 17 & 429, Soc Serv L; amd §201, Pub Health L
 
Relates to internet mapping resources of school age child care providers, afterschool and home visiting programs; and requires the provision of information to the council on children and families.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6569
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 12, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to internet mapping
resources of school age child care providers, afterschool and home
visiting programs; and to amend the public health law, in relation to
provision of information to the council on children and families
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 483-h of the social services law, as amended by
2 chapter 34 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 483-h. Internet mapping resource of school age child care providers
4 [and], afterschool and home visiting programs. 1. The council, in
5 accordance with information made available to it by the office of chil-
6 dren and family services pursuant to section seventeen of this chapter
7 [and]; and information provided to [it] the council by the state educa-
8 tion department pursuant to section three hundred five of the education
9 law[,]; and information provided by the department of health pursuant to
10 section two hundred one of the public health law, shall develop and make
11 available through a link on its website an internet mapping resource of:
12 (a) all recipients of competitive grants awarded or administered by
13 the state office of children and family services or the state education
14 department for the purpose of providing: afterschool programs or
15 extended learning time, including but not limited to grants for such
16 purposes awarded under section thirty-six hundred forty-one of the
17 education law; and
18 (b) all registered school age child care providers registered by the
19 office of children and family services except for those who in accord-
20 ance with [paragraph] subdivision eight-a of section three hundred nine-
21 ty of this chapter have opted out of providing information online[.];
22 and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c) all home visiting programs that meet the criteria as required by
2 section four hundred twenty-nine of this chapter regardless of whether
3 they have a contract with or receive funding from the state, which
4 provide the necessary information to the office of children and family
5 services required pursuant to subdivision (i) of section seventeen of
6 this chapter, or the department of health as required by paragraph (w)
7 of subdivision one of section two hundred one of the public health law.
8 2. The internet mapping resource shall include the following informa-
9 tion for each grant recipient [or], provider or program:
10 (a) the recipient's [or], provider's or program's name[,];
11 (b) the address at which the recipient, provider or program is offered
12 except for those who in accordance with [paragraph] subdivision eight-a
13 of section three hundred ninety of this chapter have opted out of
14 providing information online[, and];
15 (c) the phone number for the recipient, provider or program[.]; and
16 (d) a general description of eligible individuals and families served
17 by the particular recipient, provider or program.
18 3. The internet mapping resource described in subdivision one of this
19 section shall be updated no less than once a year.
20 4. The council may include locations and information for additional
21 relevant programs as it sees fit.
22 § 2. Subdivision (i) of section 17 of the social services law, as
23 amended by chapter 34 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as
24 follows:
25 (i) make available to the council on children and families information
26 regarding: (1) all recipients of grants awarded or administered by the
27 office of children and family services for the purposes of providing
28 afterschool programs; [and] (2) registered school age child care provid-
29 ers registered by the office of children and family services[. For each
30 grant recipient or provider the recipient's or provider's name, and the
31 address at which the program is offered except for those who in accord-
32 ance with paragraph eight-a of section three hundred ninety of this
33 chapter have opted out of providing information online, and the phone
34 number for the program will]; and (3) home visiting programs that meet
35 the criteria as required by section four hundred twenty-nine of this
36 chapter regardless of whether they have a contract with or receive fund-
37 ing from the state. Such information shall be provided in accordance
38 with the requirements set forth in subdivision two of section four
39 hundred eighty-three-h of this chapter. Such information shall be made
40 available no less than once a year; and
41 § 3. Subdivision (i) of section 17 of the social services law, as
42 relettered by section 1 of part K-3 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007,
43 is relettered subdivision (j).
44 § 4. Section 429 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
45 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
46 8. Any home visiting program that meets the criteria delineated in
47 this section as determined by factors set by the office of children and
48 family services and the department of health, regardless of whether such
49 program contracts with or receives funding from the state, may provide
50 the necessary information to such offices as is required by subdivision
51 (i) of section seventeen of this chapter or paragraph (w) of subdivision
52 one of section two hundred one of the public health law in order for
53 their program to be made available on the internet mapping resource
54 maintained by the council on children and families pursuant to section
55 four hundred eighty-three-h of this chapter.
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1 § 5. Subdivision 1 of section 201 of the public health law is amended
2 by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
3 (w) make available to the council on children and families informa-
4 tion, in a format identified by the council, regarding home visiting
5 programs that meet the criteria as required by section four hundred
6 twenty-nine of the social services law regardless of whether such
7 program has a contract with or receive funding from the state. Such
8 information shall be provided in accordance with the requirements set
9 forth in subdivision two of section four hundred eighty-three-h of the
10 social services law. Such information shall be made available no less
11 than once a year.
12 § 6. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
13 it shall have become a law; provided, however that section three of this
14 act shall take effect upon the repeal of section 1 of part W of chapter
15 54 of the laws of 2016. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
16 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
17 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
18 completed on or before such effective date.