STATE OF NEW YORK
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10359
IN ASSEMBLY
May 21, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A.
Bichotte Hermelyn) -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the public officers law,
in relation to childcare and dependent care reimbursement for volun-
teer members of public bodies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 72-s to read as follows:
3 § 72-s. Childcare and dependent care reimbursement for volunteer
4 members of public bodies. 1. For purposes of this section, "public body"
5 shall have the same meaning as such term is defined in section one
6 hundred two of the public officers law.
7 2. Volunteer members of a public body shall be reimbursed for actual
8 childcare and dependent care expenses incurred during the performance of
9 his, her, or their duties serving on such public body, including but not
10 limited to time spent attending regular or special meetings of such
11 public body.
12 3. Upon the discharge of his, her, or their official duties, if appli-
13 cable, a volunteer member of a public body shall submit documentation of
14 the costs of childcare or dependent care expenses incurred during the
15 performance of their duties to the appropriate public officer or other
16 person designated to receive documentation for financial reimbursement
17 or the municipality or political subdivision which oversees such public
18 body or appoints its members.
19 § 2. Section 64 of the public officers law is amended to read as
20 follows:
21 § 64. Payment of expenses of public officers. Every public officer who
22 is not allowed any compensation for his, her or their services shall be
23 paid his, her or their actual expenses necessarily incurred in the
24 discharge of his, her or their official duties, including childcare and
25 dependent care expenses pursuant to section seventy-two-s of the general
26 municipal law.
27 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06408-03-3
