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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S1287
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
2009-S1287 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Children And Families
- Law Section:
- Social Services
2009-S1287 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Authorizes the office of children and family services to conduct a demonstration program with three existing child care resource and referral agencies; requires each selected agency to hire an employer resource specialist in order to facilitate employers' support sponsorship and initiative in the areas of child day care and related benefits options for employees; sets forth criteria for evaluating program applications; directs the office to provide technical assistance to contract recipients and to report on program.
2009-S1287 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1287 TITLE OF BILL : An act establishing a demonstration program to facilitate employers' efforts in expanding the supply of quality child day care and in providing related benefits to their employees PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : To create a demonstration program to encourage public-private partnerships in expanding the supply of quality day care. The program would provide advice and assistance to employers in small, medium, and large businesses which are interested in providing on-site day care or incorporating day care into their benefit options. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Each of three demonstration programs shall provide for the hiring of an employer resource specialist who shall conduct outreach, provide information, and offer linkage to existing services and other employers. The resource specialist will educate businesses about the wide range of child day care and flexible benefits options available. Child care resource and referral agencies receiving a grant award will tailor the responsibilities of the employer resource specialist to the specific needs of the areas served. JUSTIFICATION : There continues to be a need for expanding the availability of quality
2009-S1287 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1287 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 28, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, DIAZ, DUANE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, SAMPSON, SCHNEIDERMAN, SERRANO, THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT establishing a demonstration program to facilitate employers' efforts in expanding the supply of quality child day care and in providing related benefits to their employees THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds and declares that the need for quality child day care has increased and that the current supply of such day care does not meet the demand for it. The legislature further finds and declares that children benefit from quali- ty child care. It is the intent of the legislature to facilitate employer initiatives in child day care and flexible benefits options in order to increase the general supply of quality child day care and to provide working parents with increased options in the care of their children. S 2. The office of children and family services is hereby authorized, within amounts available therefor by appropriation, to conduct a demon- stration program with three existing child care resource and referral agencies for the purpose of expanding the supply of quality child day care by facilitating employers' support, sponsorship and initiative in the areas of child day care and related benefits options for their employees. Each demonstration project shall provide for the hiring of an employer resource specialist, who shall be a person knowledgeable about business and whose provision of service during the duration of such program shall be deemed to be a part of the employer child care resource and referral program services function required of each such agency pursuant to section 410-q of the social services law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05562-01-9
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