A 2708: Requires child care resource and referral program participants to establish registries of substitute staff for child care providers.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2708 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing a registry of substitute staff for child care providers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (f) and (g) of subdivision 1 of section 410-q of 2 the social services law, as added by chapter 441 of the laws of 1993, 3 are amended and a new paragraph (h) is added to read as follows: 4 (f) Services directed at providing written materials and conducting 5 outreach to employers to encourage their support of child care resource 6 and referral services and other early childhood services; [and] 7 (g) Each agency funded herein shall provide services in a manner 8 responsive to the cultural, linguistic and economic characteristics of 9 the community served[.]; and 10 (h) Each agency funded herein shall establish and maintain a registry 11 of individuals who are available and eligible for employment by a child 12 day care, child day care provider, child day care center, group family 13 day care home, family day care home, group family day care home, or 14 school age child care as defined in section three hundred ninety of this 15 article, including criminal history review and background clearances as 16 defined in section three hundred ninety-b of this article. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 18 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 19 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 20 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 21 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04648-01-5