New York S 278: Relates to the appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers

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S00278 Summary:

BILL NOS00278 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00612

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §390, Soc Serv L

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Removes certain requirements on what the office of children and family services can determine to be an appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers.

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BILL NOS00278 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

06/11/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/11/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1794

06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A612

&nbspA00612 AMEND= Hevesi

&nbsp01/08/2025referred to children and families

&nbsp02/25/2025reported 

&nbsp02/27/2025advanced to third reading cal.26

&nbsp03/25/2025passed assembly

&nbsp03/25/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp03/25/2025REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

&nbsp06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S278

&nbsp06/11/20253RD READING CAL.1794

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp12/08/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp12/19/2025signed chap.644

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 278

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the appropriate
 staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care
 homes, school age day care programs and day care centers

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2-a of section 390 of the
 2 social services law, as added by chapter 416 of the laws of 2000, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) The office of children and family services shall promulgate regu-
 5 lations which establish minimum quality program requirements for
 6 licensed and registered child day care homes, programs and facilities.
 7 Such requirements shall include but not be limited to (i) the need for
 8 age appropriate activities, materials and equipment to promote cogni-
 9 tive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional, language and
 10 recreational development of children in care in a safe, healthy and
 11 caring environment (ii) principles of childhood development (iii) appro-
 12 priate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day
 13 care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers[, provided
 14 however that such staff/child ratios shall not be less stringent than
 15 applicable staff/child ratios as set forth in part four hundred four-
 16 teen, four hundred sixteen, four hundred seventeen or four hundred eigh-
 17 teen of title eighteen of the New York code of rules and regulations as
 18 of January first, two thousand] (iv) appropriate levels of supervision
 19 of children in care (v) minimum standards for sanitation, health,
 20 infection control, nutrition, buildings and equipment, safety, security
 21 procedures, first aid, fire prevention, fire safety, evacuation plans
 22 and drills, prevention of child abuse and maltreatment, staff qualifica-
 23 tions and training, record keeping, and child behavior management.
 24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00928-01-5

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