New York A 5154: Relates to van accessible handicapped parking

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A05154 Summary:

BILL NOA05154 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSimon

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COSPNSRCook, Vanel, Walsh, Williams, Otis, Ramos, Reyes, Rosenthal, Ra, Cruz, Buttenschon

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MLTSPNSR

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Directs the office of children and family services to study, make recommendations on and report on child day care and child care assistance and the availability of funding therefor.

Go to top A05154 Actions:

BILL NOA05154 

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02/12/2025referred to children and families

01/07/2026referred to children and families

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There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA05154 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5154

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 12, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, COOK, VANEL, WALSH, WILLIAMS, OTIS, RAMOS,
 REYES, ROSENTHAL, RA, CRUZ, BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Children and Families

 AN ACT to direct the office of children and family services to examine,
 evaluate and make recommendations on the availability of child day
 care and child care assistance, and determine the unmet need of child
 care subsidies; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
 expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. 1. The office of children and family services shall exam-
 2 ine, evaluate and make recommendations concerning the availability of
 3 funding for day care for children in the state. Such office shall pay
 4 particular attention to the impact of the lack of necessary child day
 5 care upon the ability of working families to achieve self-sufficiency
 6 and a better standard of living.
 7 The office of children and family services shall direct its attention
 8 to:
 9 (a) establishing an inventory of child day care for working families
 10 and those at or near poverty;
 11 (b) identifying child day care shortage areas on a regional basis and
 12 providing projections of the future demand of the next five to ten years
 13 for child day care based on the regional birth rates, employment and
 14 population growth rates;
 15 (c) comparing on a statewide and regional basis, the demand for child
 16 day care services over the succeeding five to ten years, including
 17 whether the projected growth rate in the child day care industry will be
 18 sufficient to meet such future needs;
 19 (d) offering recommendations to the department of labor and any other
 20 relevant agencies as to how the labor force can help meet the projected
 21 shortage;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06211-01-5

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 1 (e) identifying policies that would encourage the establishment and
 2 operation of more child day care center providers, and increasing the
 3 capacity of existing child day care providers;
 4 (f) assessing the cost to parents and guardians of day care for chil-
 5 dren on a regional basis, including the availability of government funds
 6 for parents and guardians toward child care costs;
 7 (g) identifying which social services districts have insufficient
 8 funding to serve all eligible families and determining whether they are
 9 receiving no new cases or restricting eligibility based upon set income
 10 levels;
 11 (h) reviewing the number and percentage of eligible families receiving
 12 child care subsidies in this state, as compared to other states, and
 13 report on any policy approaches in use in other states that could be
 14 useful for consideration in this state;
 15 (i) identifying which social services districts maintain waiting lists
 16 for eligible families seeking child care subsidies;
 17 (j) calculating the total sum of families statewide that are awaiting
 18 child care subsidies and the projected fiscal impact to the state if all
 19 eligible families are served;
 20 (k) comparing the income levels of families receiving child care
 21 subsidies on a regional basis to determine what inequities exist across
 22 the state;
 23 (l) examining the use of child care funding by local social services
 24 districts to provide transportation to ch