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History
- Print number 1465a
- Amend and recommit to children and families
- Referred to children and families
- Referred to children and families
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to directing the council on children and families to establish an online listing and map of publicly funded or registered afterschool and school age childcare programs and to expand the duties of the commissioner of social services; and to amend the education law, in relation to expanding the duties of the commissioner of education
Purpose
This bill ensures the Council on Children and Families develops and makes available through its website a listing and map of all recipients of grants awarded or administered by the state for the purpose of providing afterschool or summer programs, extended learning time, or community schools, and all registered school age providers registered by the office of children and family services. The listing shall include for each grant recipient or provider the recipient or provider's name, the address at which the program is offered, and the name and phone number of an individual who is authorized to answer questions regarding the program.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends social service law by adding section 483-g that requires the Council on Children and Families to develop and make available through its website a listing and map of all recipients of competitive grants awarded or administered by the state included but not limited to grants under section 3641 of the education law, grants awarded or administered by the state for the purpose of providing after-school or summer programs, extended learning time, or community schools, and all registered school age providers registered by the office of children and family services. The listing shall include each grant recipient or provider's name, the address at which the program is offered, and the name and phone number of an individual who is authorized to answer questions regarding the program. The listing and map shall be updated no less than once every ninety days to reflect changes. The listing and map shall be updated within ninety days of any contract with a grant recipient expiring or being signed. The council may include locations and information for additional relevant programs as it sees fit.
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Section 2 amends subdivisions (h) and (i) of section 17 of the social services law to require that the Commissioner of Children and Families services make available to the Council on Children and Families, through the OpenNY website, information regarding all recipients of grants awarded or administered by the state for the purposes of providing afterschool or summer programs as defined in section two of this chapter, extended learning time, including but not limited to grants for such purposes awarded under section thirty-six hundred forty-one of the education law, and registered school age child care providers registered by the office of children and family services. For each grant recipient or provider, information concerning name, the address at which the program is offered, and the name and phone number of an individual who is authorized to answer questions regarding the program will be made available through the OpenNY website no less than once a year and within 90 days of the date of execution or expiration of contracts with grant recipients when all such contracts are executing or expiring for a particular competitive grant.
Section 3 amends section 305 of the education law by adding a new subdivision 55 to require the Commissioner of Children and Family Services to provide the council information regarding all recipients of grants for afterschool, summer programs, or extended learning time awarded or administered by the state , including but not limited to grants for such purposes awarded under section 3641 of this chapter, or community schools. Each grant recipient's name, address and contact information for a person authorized to answer questions regarding the program. The information must be provided to the council no less than once a year and within 90 days of the date of the execution and expiration of grant with grant recipients.
Section 4 amends section 2 of the social services law, by adding subdivisions 39 and 40, to define "afterschool program" and "summer program".
Section 5 establishes the effective date.
Justification
As it stands now, there is no statewide database through which parents and caregivers can search to identify afterschool, extended learning, and summer programs for their school age children. This bill will begin to address this gap in information and services.
Legislative history
2013-14: S.6553A Passed Assembly/Senate-vetoed memo. 572
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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