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History
- Vetoed memo.264
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.392
- Substituted for A7451A
- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1670
- Reported and committed to rules
- Print number 1706a
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- Amend and recommit to finance
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to children and families
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to children and families
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Relates to the investigation of illegally operating child day care services
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Latoya Joyner
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Title of bill
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to investigation of illegally operating child day care services
Purpose
To provide greater protection to families in regard to child care operations by mandating the office of children and family services to investigate current child care operations advertising their services in New York State.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of this bill amends subdivision 1 of section 390 of the Social Services Law by adding a new paragraph (g) to define the term "Internet advertisement," which shall mean any advertising of child day care services through the medium of the Internet.
Section 2 of this bill renumbers subdivisions 11, 12 and 13 to 12, 13, and 14, and a new subdivision 11 is added to provide that the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) periodically review at least once a month any Internet advertisements offering child day care services. The review must include advertisements from each county in New York State. Further, OCFS must adopt a procedure to implement this review. This procedure has to include identification and further investigation of providers who are not registered or licensed, and cannot provide the child day care services to an additional child without violating this section or any regulations promulgated from this section.
Section 3 of this bill provides that this act shall take effect immediately.
Existing law
Currently, there is no affirmative duty to investigate on the part of the office of children and family services. Their only obligation is to review any complaints they receive from the hotline in regard to child care operations. They do not have to conduct any regular investigations or audits. Their only responsibility is to react to any complaint, but not take charge and review these operations independently.
Justification
This legislation will give OCFS the affirmative duty to investigate and audit child care operations that are using the Internet to advertise services in New York State. These investigations will help to reduce the number of illegal child care services operating, and encourage licensed operations to only take on children within the legal limit.
The State Comptroller conducted an audit in August 2014 of OCFS and found that there were many illegal child care operations advertising services online. The Comptroller also discovered that child care operations were willing to take on children over the set legal limit.
This legislation would help to give OCFS the affirmative duty to protect children by making sure that child day care providers are not taking children over the legal limit, and parents have the resources that will guide them toward legal child day care services by working to shut down those day care services advertising illegal services.
Legislative history
2015: S.1706 - Reported to Finance
Fiscal implications to the state
Undetermined
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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