Directs the office of children and family services to develop and post a list of eligible substitute day care staff who can be used by a child day care provider in a time of need.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6071
SPONSOR: Slater TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the office
of children and family services to develop a list of eligible substitute
day care staff
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Provide daycares with a list of possible, eligible, and qualified
substitutes for when they need one.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 - Eligible substitute day care staff list. The office of chil-
dren and family services shall develop and post a list of eligible
substitute day care staff to be used by a child day care provider in a
time of need. Such list shall include, but not be limited to, such
eligible staffer's:
1. Name
2. Age
3. Location
4. Experience
Section 2 - Effective Date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Day care staff are people too, sometimes they get sick, injured, sched-
ule appointments, or otherwise cannot come to work. When that happens,
the daycare is either short staffed which decreases the quality of
childcare available, or the daycare is left with no staff, forcing it to
close for the day leaving parents without childcare with little to no
notice. Either situation should be avoided. Providing daycares with a
pool of qualified and licensed substitute staff members prevents these
situations, similar to how a list of substitutes prevents those situ-
ations in schools.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
To be determined
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6071
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the office
of children and family services to develop a list of eligible substi-
tute day care staff
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 501-i
2 to read as follows:
3 § 501-i. Eligible substitute day care staff list. The office of chil-
4 dren and family services shall develop and post a list of eligible
5 substitute day care staff to be used by a child day care provider in a
6 time of need. Such list shall include, but not be limited to, such
7 eligible staffer's:
8 1. name;
9 2. age;
10 3. location; and
11 4. experience.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10026-01-3
