New York A 5988: Provides school tax exemption relief (STAR) to small businesses with 100 or fewer employees

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A05988 Summary:

BILL NOA05988 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07006

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SPONSORLavine

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COSPNSRSteck, Conrad, Lunsford, McDonald, Davila, Tapia, Seawright, Ramos, Griffin, Santabarbara

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§424-a & 390-b, Soc Serv L

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Includes temporary child care employment agencies and child care educational and training institutions as providers authorized to conduct background clearances.

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BILL NOA05988 

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02/25/2025referred to children and families

01/07/2026referred to children and families

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5988

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Children and Families

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to background
 clearances for temporary child care employment agencies and child care
 educational and training institutions

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 424-a of the social services law,
 2 as amended by chapter 611 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 3. For purposes of this section, the term "provider" or "provider
 5 agency" shall mean: an authorized agency; the office of children and
 6 family services; a private, nonprofit incorporated agency that meets the
 7 state office of children and family services program standards for child
 8 advocacy centers; juvenile detention facilities subject to the certif-
 9 ication of the office of children and family services; programs estab-
 10 lished pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law; non-residen-
 11 tial or residential programs or facilities licensed or operated by the
 12 office of mental health or the office for people with developmental
 13 disabilities except family care homes; including head start programs
 14 which are funded pursuant to title V of the federal economic opportunity
 15 act of nineteen hundred sixty-four, as amended; early intervention
 16 service established pursuant to section twenty-five hundred forty of the
 17 public health law; preschool services established pursuant to section
 18 forty-four hundred ten of the education law; special act school
 19 districts as enumerated in chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of
 20 nineteen hundred sixty-seven, as amended; programs and facilities
 21 licensed by the office of [alcoholism] addiction services and [substance
 22 abuse services] support; residential schools which are operated, super-
 23 vised or approved by the education department; health homes, or any
 24 subcontractor of such health homes, who contracts with or is approved or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10104-01-5

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 1 otherwise authorized by the department of health to provide health home
 2 services to all those enrolled pursuant to a diagnosis of a develop-
 3 mental disability as defined in subdivision twenty-two of section 1.03
 4 of the mental hygiene law and enrollees who are under twenty-one years
 5 of age under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter, or any
 6 entity that provides home and community based services to enrollees who
 7 are under twenty-one years of age under a demonstration program pursuant
 8 to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social security act;
 9 temporary employment agencies providing substitute child care staff to
 10 any other provider agency, and educational and training institutions
 11 assigning child care staff as interns or residents at any other provider
 12 agency; publicly-funded emergency shelters for families with children,
 13 provided, however, for purposes of this section, when the provider or
 14 provider agency is a publicly-funded emergency shelter for families with
 15 children, then all references in this section to the "potential for
 16 regular and substantial contact with individuals who are cared for by
 17 the agency" shall mean