What's happening
This bill directs the Office of Children and Family Services to study and recommend improvements for child day care availability in New York.
Why it matters
Focuses on barriers for low-income and working families. , especially women in poverty, by examining how lack of child care affects their ability to secure and maintain employment.
Targets regional disparities. by mapping shortages and projecting future child care demand based on birth rates, employment trends, and population growth, which could influence resource allocation and community planning.
Addresses affordability and funding gaps. by evaluating the costs parents face for child care in different regions and reviewing the sufficiency of government assistance available to them.
Explores nontraditional and flexible care needs. , such as services for parents working night shifts or irregular hours, and seeks to identify ways to expand and improve quality child care options in underserved and working-poor communities.
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Who cares
Office of Children and Family Services
The office would study child care availability, costs, quality and shortages and report its findings and recommendations within twelve months.
Women in poverty and working families
The study would give particular attention to how a lack of child care affects their ability to enter the labor force.
Parents working night shifts or other nontraditional hours
The study would identify child care needs outside standard daytime hours, including early drop-off and late pickup services.
Child care providers
The study would identify policies to encourage new providers, expand existing capacity and address quality and provider violations.
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Study Day Care Access
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Enacting clause stricken
- Referred to children and families
- Referred to children and families
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Study Day Care Access
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor David Carlucci
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5915
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to direct the office of children and family services to examine, evaluate and make recommendations on the availability of day care for children; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The office of children and family services shall examine, evaluate and make recommendations concerning the availability of day care for children in the state. Such office shall pay particular attention to the impact of the lack of necessary child day care upon the ability of women in poverty and those in working families to enter the labor force. The office of children and family services shall direct its attention to:
(a) establishing an inventory of child day care for working families and those at or near poverty;
(b) geographically identifying child day care shortage areas on a regional basis and projections of the future demand for child day care based on the regional birth rates, employment and population growth rates;
(c) comparing on a statewide and regional basis, the demand for child day care services over the succeeding five years, including whether the projected growth rate in the child day care industry will be sufficient to meet such future needs;
(d) assessing the cost to parents and guardians of day care for children on a regional basis, including the availability of government funds for parents and guardians toward child care costs;
(e) identifying nontraditional child care needs within the state and regionally for parents who work other than a 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. shift or part-time, including those who work night shifts or swing
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shifts, and those parents who require early drop off and/or late pick up services from their child care provider;
(f) identifying policies that would encourage the establishment and operation of more child day care center providers and increasing the capacity of existing child day care providers;
(g) identifying policies that would encourage and facilitate expansion of quality child day care services by neighbors and in communities where the working poor live and/or work; and
(h) identifying and quantifying those factors that contribute to quality child day care, are used to identify child day care providers who are committing violations, how such violations are addressed or prevented, and procedures for establishing quality child day care in those communities with the greatest needs.
§ 2. The office of children and family services may request and shall receive any available information from state agencies that is relevant and material to the study required by section one of this act.
§ 3. Within twelve months of the effective date of this act, the commissioner of children and family services shall submit a report, to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly, on the office's findings, conclusions and recommendations, and shall submit therewith such legislative proposals as the office of children and family services shall deem necessary to implement its recommendations. In addition, such office shall make such report available to the public and post it on the internet website operated by the office.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall expire and be deemed repealed one year after it shall take effect.
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