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Relates to requiring at least one employee at a child day care facility or family day care home to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid

Relates to requiring at least one employee at a child day care facility or family day care home to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid.

William ScarboroughSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Requires the office of children and family services to submit a report on recommendations for manageable workloads for adult protective services workers

Requires the office of children and family services to submit a report on recommendations for manageable workloads for adult protective services workers by December 1, 2011.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Requires the recording of all calls made to the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment

Requires the recording of all calls made to the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment; also requires such recordings to be maintained for 5 years.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Requires facilitating the use of alternatives to detention programs

Relates to the office of children and family services and facilitating the use of alternatives to detention programs.

William ScarboroughRules Committee

Establishes the youth in progress advisory board for adolescents in foster care

Establishes the youth in progress advisory board and regional teams for adolescents in foster care to provide mentorship of youths in foster care; requires reporting.

William ScarboroughRules Committee

Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship pilot program

Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship pilot program; grants awards for the purpose of enhancing opportunities for higher education for children and young adults receiving foster…

William ScarboroughHigher Education Committee

Relates to the enforcement of child day care safety and standards; repealer

Relates to the enforcement of child day care safety and standards.

William ScarboroughSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides for alternative to detention programs for court-involved children

Provides for reimbursement for alternatives to detention and residential placement programs for youth by the office of children and family services.

William ScarboroughWays And Means Committee

Relates to dispositional and violation procedures in juvenile delinquency cases and cases concerning persons in need

Relates to dispositional and violation procedures in juvenile delinquency cases and cases concerning persons in need.

William ScarboroughCodes Committee

Relates to permanency planning and dispositional alternatives in juvenile delinquency and persons in need of supervision proceedings

Relates to permanency planning and dispositional alternatives in juvenile delinquency and persons in need of supervision proceedings.

William ScarboroughCodes Committee

Establishes the summer employment program

Establishes the summer employment program for youths between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one to be administered by the labor department; local community-based organizations and government…

William ScarboroughLabor Committee

Relates to notification procedures for the transfer of a child from one foster home to another

Relates to notification procedures for the transfer of a child from one foster home to another; permits transfer without prior notice in certain circumstances.

William ScarboroughVetoed

Vetoed

Urging the NYS Congressional delegation to direct the VA to build a full service hospital on the grounds of the St. Albans Veterans Facility

William ScarboroughVeterans' Affairs Committee

Establishes the peer advocacy and mentoring program

Establishes the Peer Advocacy and Mentoring program; provides peer support, advocacy and mentoring for youth in residential care.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Relates to establishing a juvenile justice smart investment program

Creates a juvenile justice smart investment program.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Relates to hepatitis vaccinations

Allows the commissioner to establish a statewide program requiring hepatitis vaccinations for school employees.

William ScarboroughEducation Committee

Provides for coordinated children's services for children and youth with cross-system needs

Provides for coordinated children's services for children and youth with cross-system needs.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Enacts the "SAFETY act" to prevent harassment and discrimination

Enacts the "SAFETY Act"; authorizes the office of children and family services to establish policies and procedures affording all children in OCFS facilities an environment free of harassment and…

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of families who have applied for child care assistance and data regarding the income of such families

Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; further requires the local districts to report such list to the…

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders

Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders residing in a facility overseen by the office…

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Relates to guidelines and standards for child protective services caseworker workloads

Relates to guidelines and standards for child protective services caseworker workloads.

William ScarboroughOn the Assembly floor

Relates to sexually exploited children

Relates to the treatment of sexually exploited children in the criminal justice system the provision of safe housing and other programs.

William ScarboroughOn the Assembly floor

Relates to school placement for homeless children

Relates to school placement for homeless children.

William ScarboroughEducation Committee

Relates to increased protection for children against certain crimes

Relates to increased protection for children against certain crimes; prohibits the sale of children through adoption and surrogate parenting; increases penalties for child labor and sex trafficking;…

William ScarboroughCodes Committee

Establishes a pre-marital course and a marital and family preservation program and imposes requirements to take the course and program

Establishes a pre-marital course and a marital and family preservation program and imposes requirements to take the course and program; requires the completion of the pre-marital course before…

William ScarboroughHealth Committee

Relates to wage reporting for the purposes of determining eligibility under the provisions of title IV-E of the federal social security act for foster children

Relates to wage reporting for the purposes of determining eligibility under the provisions of title IV-E of the federal social security act for foster children.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Establishes that the promotion of prostitution of a child less than eighteen years old by a parent or guardian a Class B felony

Establishes that the promotion of prostitution of a child less than eighteen years old by a parent or guardian of such child is a Class B felony.

William ScarboroughCodes Committee

Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship program

Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship program; grants awards for the purpose of enhancing opportunities for higher education for children and young adults receiving foster care…

William ScarboroughHigher Education Committee

Requires employees of certain child day cares to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid

Requires certain employees of certain child day cares to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid; such training and certification must be maintained as current…

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Provides two days excused leave for parents for participation with child's education

Provides two days excused leave for parents for participation with child's education; two days per school year, per child.

William ScarboroughGovernmental Employees Committee

Requires schools to accept credits for educational programs at OCFS facilities as transfer credits

Requires schools to accept credits for educational programs at OCFS facilities as transfer credits.

William ScarboroughEducation Committee

Requires certain persons and officials, teachers, superintendents and certain professionals to complete training in reporting cases of suspected child abuse

Requires certain persons and officials required to report suspected child abuse and maltreatment to complete ongoing training; further all teachers, school superintendents and licensed professionals…

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Requires firefighters to report child abuse or maltreatment

Requires firefighters to report child abuse or maltreatment.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Relates to information in child fatality reports

Relates to information in child fatality reports.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Relates to funding for alternative-to-detention and alternative-to-placement programs for juveniles; repealer

Relates to state reimbursement for alternative to detention and alternative to placement programs for juveniles; creates a per diem account and requires comprehensive plans and outcome reporting.

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program

Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes the September eleventh, two thousand one scholarship fund.

William ScarboroughEducation Committee

Relates to the rights of youth in detention and residential programs for youth

Relates to the rights of youth in detention and residential programs for youth; creates youth advisory boards within secure and non-secure facilities to assist in the development of policies…

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Provides that certain court papers submitted on application for a name change shall be sealed

Provides that certain court papers submitted on application for a name change shall be sealed.

William ScarboroughSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides that no applicant, or recipient of, child care assistance shall be required to pursue a court order for child support to qualify for child care assistance

Relates to child care assistance eligibility; provides that applicants shall be encouraged to obtain a child support order but no applicant for, or recipient of, child care assistance shall be…

William ScarboroughOn the Assembly floor

Memorializing the Governor to proclaim April 2009 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the State of New York

William ScarboroughAdopted

Adopted

Mourning the death of Dr. Gloria Ruby Mae Black, distinguished citizen and devoted member of her community

William ScarboroughAdopted

Adopted