Provides for screening of applicants for a license or registration to provide child day care and for screening for child day care personnel

BILL NUMBER:S2620

Title of bill

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to mandatory screening of applicants for a license or registration to provide child day care and to mandatory screening of personnel of child day care providers

Purpose/summary of provisions

This bill is designed to prevent further abuses which some children have endured in the current child care system. The first two provisions in this bill add a list of specific felony violations for which both child day care providers and their personnel can have their licenses either suspended and/or revoked. The additional provisions of this bill outlining the procedure and elements of the mandatory screening and gives the circumstances under which the license or registration may be denied, suspended, or revoked.

Justification

Over the past few years there have been an increasing number of reports of horrible violations against children (both physical and mental) in the child day care system. Situations, such as the one at the Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood Day-Care Center in 1992, would be prevented through enactment of this bill.

Fiscal implications

EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall become a law, provided, however, that the adoption, amendment, suspension or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for timely implementation of this act is directed and authorized.