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New York Assembly Children and Families Committee
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committee members
Khaleel Anderson (D)
Paul Bologna (R)
Monique Chandler-Waterman (D)
Sarah Clark (D)
Maritza Davila (D)
Jessica González-Rojas (D)
Chair
Andrew Hevesi (D)
Josh Jensen (R)
Micah Lasher (D)
Grace Lee (D)
Jen Lunsford (D)
Brian Maher (R)
Demond Meeks (D)
Marcela Mitaynes (D)
Andrew Molitor (R)
Sam Pirozzolo (R)
Aron Wieder (D)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A00024 | Exempts certain child day care facilities that serve only dependent children of military personnel and are located on certain federal property or certified by a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense or the U.S. Coast Guard from certain registration and licensing requirements for child care providers in this state. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00051 | Requires all employees of a family day care center, group family day care center, school-aged child care program, and child day care center be trained in administering an opioid antagonist; requires a child day care to stock at least one opioid antagonist. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00063 | Establishes the child and family well-being program and fund for the distribution of grants to eligible nonprofit community-based providers to respond to children's and families' needs in communities. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00064 | Requires the court in proceedings in which an order of protection or temporary order of protection has been issued and a child is the protected party to notify such child's school of such order of protection or temporary order of protection on the same day of the issuance of such order of protection or temporary order of protection. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00065 | Directs the office of victim services, in consultation with the office for the prevention of domestic violence, to establish a statewide supervised visitation initiative including culturally sensitive services that provide language access for those who need it and that are affordable for those with limited means to pay; requires the submission of regular assessments and reports. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| A00066 | Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central register to leave their name and contact information; prohibits the office of children and family services from releasing information identifying a person who made such a report. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00068 | Relates to the discovery provisions applicable to juvenile delinquency proceedings in family court with regard to the timing of discovery, disclosure prior to certain guilty pleas, DNA evidence, court orders, and the admissibility of discovery. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00076 | Relates to defining "critical violations" of applicable statutes and regulations by child care providers licensed or registered by the office of children and family services; the imposition of sanctions and penalties for such violations by the office of children and family services; and processes for administrative appeal of such sanctions and penalties. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00197 | Relates to creating the Brooklyn health care commission which shall be charged with examining the system of general hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory and primary care facilities, and medical school facilities in Kings county and recommending changes to that system. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00456 | Establishes standards for caseloads for child protective services workers; requires the state to pay for one hundred percent of the costs associated with compliance of such caseload standard; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00487 | Increases the state reimbursement rate for preventative child protective services from 65 to 75 percent. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00492 | Establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund and provides for the distribution thereof; makes an appropriation therefor. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00499 | Relates to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment at summer day camps; includes college coaches, athletic directors, professors, graduate assistants and college presidents among those required to report such suspected abuse or maltreatment. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00531 | Establishes the statewide kinship navigator program for kinship caregivers. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00595 | Establishes alternative living arrangements for children who are at a substantial risk of abuse; defines an alternative living arrangement as a temporary, written and agreed upon out of home living arrangement developed as a result of an investigation of child maltreatment by the child protective service that would allow for a relative or suitable person to temporarily care for a child who is at a substantial risk of abuse or in imminent danger of neglect; requires annual reporting. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00612 | 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. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| A00619 | Relates to additional state payment assistance; provides that where there is no agreement in effect for federal administration of additional state payments the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance is responsible for providing assistance to applicants for or recipients of such payments as it relates to applying for, modifying or maintaining such benefits. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00711 | Requires the office of children and family services to utilize a cost estimation model when determining the actual cost providers incur when providing child care; requires the office to prepare a report detailing such. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00718 | Relates to incorporating the cost of living adjustment into subsequent annual maximum state aid base rates for providing care to foster children. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00719 | Amends the constitution to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00726 | Requires that attorneys be available to parents of minors; requires that all interactions with children by child protective services and the administration for children's services are videotaped. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00735 | Expands the age range eligibility for the rent subsidy payable to a foster child living independently to age twenty-four. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00744 | Relates to collecting data regarding alternative living arrangements for children who are at a substantial risk of maltreatment. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| A00748 | Establishes the kinship legal network program in the office of children and family services to provide legal services to kinship caregivers. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00883 | Provides funds for day care services for the children of persons 24 and under to enable such persons to continue secondary and post-secondary education; provides criteria to be governed by standards established for economically and educationally disadvantaged students under special opportunity programs for state and city universities; appropriates $5,600,000 to the office of children and family services therefor. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00915 | Relates to the statewide presumptive eligibility standard; authorizes local social services districts to utilize child care block grant funds for the presumptive eligibility period to the extent permitted by federal law; amends the effectiveness thereof. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00917 | Relates to the termination of subsidies provided to adoptive parents for disabled or hard to place children; replaces references of "assistance" with "subsidy"; changes the effective date to 90 days. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00922 | Modifies the safe landings for youth leaving foster care act or safe landings act to allow for the conversion of certain motions to become motions to return a respondent to foster care. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00980 | Provides for the protection of the air quality at licensed day care centers and head start day care centers funded pursuant to federal law; requires the office of children and family services to consult with the commissioners of environmental conservation and health regarding the air quality and environmental hazards that may be involved with any new day care center or head start day care center; requires such office to consult with the department of health if any new environmental or environmen | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01001 | Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to the applicable payment rate established by the department. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01018 | Eliminates the requirement of conducting a study on the number of children in foster care who have a disability; makes technical changes to certain provisions of law. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/08/2025 |
| A01211 | Directs the office of children and family services to establish a center for fatherhood initiatives to issue grants to any and all initiatives regarding the promotion and advancement of fatherhood, including but not limited to all marginalized fatherhood groups to help expand opportunities to improve parenting knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01234 | Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of the person under investigation. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01242 | Establishes a task force to examine, evaluate, accept public comment and make recommendations concerning the impact of adverse experiences and preventive and trauma-informed policy and practices. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01301 | Requires child day care centers, family day care homes, and any child day care provider notify the municipality in which they intend to operate of their intent to request such a license or registration provided such child day care center, family day care home, or child day care provider is located within a city with a population of one million or more. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01305 | Relates to establishing a program for financial transitional living services for foster children; establishes independent development savings accounts for foster children over the age of 16; requires foster children to attend financial literacy and independent living classes. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01315 | Authorizes the fingerprinting of employees of informal child care providers; defines terms; provides that an informal child care provider means a program in a facility, other than a residence, in which child care is provided on a regular basis and is not required to be licensed by or registered with the office or licensed by the city of New York. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01333 | Establishes the Early Learning Child Care Act to impose a payroll tax on certain employers for the purposes of addressing child care affordability, accessibility, and quality for families with children under five years of age; establishes the early learning child care fund; establishes the early learning child care program to provide subsidies to covered children to attend early learning child care programs; establishes the New York state child care board. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01375 | Establishes the office of the child welfare advocate to provide support to youth, biological parents, kinship caregivers and foster parents including prospective kinship caregivers or foster parents. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01382 | Provides training to staff members accepting registrations, issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities on the detection of controlled substances. | Crossed Over | 01/09/2025 |
| A01391 | Provides that any person charged with enforcing laws prohibiting cruelty to animals shall cause a report to be made when, in the performance of their duties, such person has reasonable cause to believe that abuse or maltreatment of a child has also occurred; provides that a person charged with the responsibility of filing a report of child abuse or maltreatment shall also file a report of suspected animal cruelty. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01404 | Requires local child protective services to notify appropriate military personnel when a member of the armed forces is the subject of a report of child abuse or maltreatment; allows military law enforcement personnel to inquire of local child protective services whether any member of the armed forces is the subject of an indicated report on file with the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01508 | Relates to minimum standards for first aid and enrollment in child day care centers; requires a child day care center's first aid kit include antiseptic or antibacterial ointment; requires a day care center to provide medication consent forms and a copy of its health care plan upon a child's enrollment. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01604 | Relates to the provision of criminal history background checks free of charge to mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01629 | Includes organizations and programs that provide community based services to individuals under twenty-one in the definition of provider or provider agency regarding the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01669 | Requires an arresting authority to notify the local social services district when the parent, legal guardian or care-giver of a minor is arrested or taken into custody; requires the local social services district to monitor the placement of such minor. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01760 | Establishes the youth in progress advisory board and regional teams for adolescents in foster care to provide mentorship of youths in foster care; requires reporting. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01955 | Requires a parent or other person legally responsible for a minor and the law guardian appointed pursuant to law to be present during questioning by a peace or police officer. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01990 | Expands the list of those able to commence proceedings alleging that a child is a destitute child to include the child in question, if over 14 years of age, and other persons on the court's direction; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02042 | Authorizes the commissioner of the office of children and family services to conduct a study that examines barriers to the creation of child care providers and provide recommendations thereto to facilitate the creation of new child care providers. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02053 | 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. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02135 | Eliminates penalties for mandated reporters who fail to report suspected abuse or neglect of children or people with special needs; repeals certain provisions of law related thereto. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02218 | Prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage to be eligible for child care assistance. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02225 | Prohibits public funding to facilities or programs using aversive interventions on children; establishes a holistic autism spectrum disorder treatment center. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02265 | Relates to the establishment of a waiver for child care learning pods; provides that unlicensed and unregulated child care learning pods may operate if there are otherwise no violations of laws or codes, rules, and regulations of New York and such child care learning pod is compliant with the local laws, codes, rules, and regulations of such local municipality in which they are located and operated; provides for civil penalty for violations. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02373 | Requires the office of children and family services implement a regional cost factor analysis for child care subsidies; requires social services districts implement such findings. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02441 | Relates to the confidentiality and expungement of records in juvenile delinquency cases in the family court; requires certain records to be expunged automatically. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02451 | Factors domestic violence convictions into family court decisions regarding visitation, custody and parental rights; provides that any parent undergoing mandatory, batterer specific rehabilitation measures shall only be granted supervised visitation. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02620 | Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody. | Crossed Over | 01/21/2025 |
| A02708 | Requires child care resource and referral program participants to establish registries of substitute staff for child care providers. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| A03174 | Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03190 | Requires licensed day care facilities to contact a child's parent or guardian if they are absent from day care, with no prior notice given, within thirty minutes after such child is recorded as absent. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03195 | Permits mentoring programs to conduct background clearances of prospective employees and volunteers to determine whether any such person has been reported for child abuse or maltreatment or is on the sex offender registry. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03317 | Protects a parent who is a victim of domestic violence from having children removed from their custody if they reported the abuse. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03481 | Provides that in the event child protective services receives a duplicate report on an open case that has not been founded, indicated or referred to services, such duplicate report shall merge with the open case and remain open an additional thirty days for further investigation. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03491 | Provides for a formal process for a parent or legal guardian to request the issuance of an AMBER alert. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03553 | Relates to the caseloads of preventative services caseworkers. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03636 | Establishes a division of early childhood within the office of children and family services to coordinate, consolidate and integrate early childhood programs. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03899 | Requires inspections of child day care homes, programs and facilities include the full premises; requires providers of a family day care home or group family day care home to disclose to the office of children and family services all persons who reside in the home where child day care is being provided; requires all providers of child day care to receive training for, provide and maintain onsite opioid antagonists for use during emergencies. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03970 | Clarifies the timeline and details needed for child protective services to declare whether a report is "indicated" or "unfounded" including examining past family history. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A04003 | Requires one caregiver for every two children under eighteen months of age in group family day care homes and family day care homes. | Crossed Over | 01/30/2025 |
| A04045 | Relates to findings in child abuse or neglect proceedings. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A04097 | Requires the use of canines trained to detect drugs and firearms during inspections of day care facilities or premises. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04122 | Authorizes and directs the office of children and family services to conduct a study on the family assessment response program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04266 | Authorizes child care assistance to be made available to certain victims of domestic violence who are in need of assistance in order for a parent or caretaker relative to engage in work or participate in work activities. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04362 | Relates to the duty owed by certain agencies to children in the legal custody of the agencies with respect to the placement of children; provides a statutory private right of action for compensatory damage; extends jurisdiction of the court of claims to certain claims for injuries to a child. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04392 | Establishes the independent office of the child advocate to ensure the protection and promotion of the rights of children in the care of any state agency or local social services district. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04530 | Requires certain child day care centers to have video surveillance in certain areas occupied by children who are three years of age or younger. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04534 | Relates to the establishment of a non-traditional hours model; provides that the office of children and family services shall: create a non-traditional hours model within a year, publish its findings on its website, and conduct a review of child care providers and centers that use such model. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04548 | Requires the mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment by certain employees of the metropolitan transportation authority; requires such employees to complete coursework or training regarding the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04557 | Relates to written notification to schools of a student's placement in foster care. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04598 | Requires certain persons and officials required to report suspected child abuse and maltreatment to complete ongoing training; requires all teachers, school superintendents and licensed professionals who are required to report cases of child abuse and maltreatment to complete training in the reporting of suspected cases of child abuse and maltreatment at least once every 2 years. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04753 | Establishes Bella's Law which calls for an investigation into possible domestic violence or abuse for persons who have been accused of animal abuse. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04785 | Provides for free criminal history background checks for mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A05084 | Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of certain families applying for child care assistance. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05135 | Provides all child protective service employees with supportive mental health services and resources. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05154 | 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. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05352 | Directs the office of children and family services to establish an outdoor, nature-based child care program to allow for the operation of licensed outdoor, nature-based child care classrooms which provide early learning services for preschool or school-age children in an outdoor space and that employ a curriculum with nature to teach enrolled children. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05413 | Enacts the "help parents find and afford child care act"; provides for child care subsidies to be administered under the child care assistance program; establishes a tri-share child care program; establishes an at-home infant care program; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05434 | Requires the office of children and family services to provide luggage to youth in foster care; provides that such luggage shall be distributed to social services districts for distribution to foster care youth; requires the office of children and family services to submit an annual report to the governor and the legislature about the distribution of luggage to foster care youth. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05536 | Increases salaries for foster care direct care workers; makes an appropriation therefor. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05560 | Requires training in developmental disability awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity and implicit bias for child protective services workers. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05893 | Allows prospective and current agency personnel receive certification through remote training methods; requires the establishment of rules and regulations of such remote training. | Crossed Over | 02/24/2025 |
| A05899 | Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; establishes a universal child care taskforce to help implement universal child care in the state and repeals certain provisions of the social services law relating thereto; establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund; establishes a universal child care public option pilot program to provide universal child care in at least twenty locations thr | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05927 | Relates to removing special powers granted to the society for the prevention of cruelty to children. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/25/2025 |
| A05988 | Includes temporary child care employment agencies and child care educational and training institutions as providers authorized to conduct background clearances. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06067 | Reimburses counties who have purchased or will purchase document management software designed specifically for the child welfare industry. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06078 | Allows child day care providers an extension of time of the original 90 day period to make necessary changes or accommodations to their facility to meet licensing requirements; grants the office of children and family services authority to grant additional extensions of time, if necessary. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| A06189 | Relates to allowing unaccompanied children in custody petition the family court for orders of dependency to ensure such child receives proper care. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06210 | Limits the experiential qualifications of group teachers for preschool classes and groups teachers for infant or toddler classes to what was required for their educational qualifications. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06217 | Allows for case workers to apply for education and training vouchers for children in foster care. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06380 | Relates to expanding the persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected child abuse to include employees, volunteers, or agents of any corporate entity having an agreement with a municipality as a tier II facility or any other shelter providing temporary housing to persons under the age of 18. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06482 | Directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services to establish a Consumer Directed Childcare Pilot Program for eligible families, within amounts appropriated therefor, in up to five counties with populations between 160,000 and 300,000. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06533 | Requires child protective services to document every home visit or contact with the child as part of a treatment plan, supervision and monitoring, with photographs of the child. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06683 | Prohibits the use of aversive conditioning which includes any procedure which causes obvious signs of physical pain, including but not limited to hitting, pinching and electric shock; prohibits the use of any procedure or punishment which denies a vulnerable person reasonable sleep, shelter, bedding, bathroom facilities and any other aspect expected of a humane existence; defines terms. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| A06716 | Relates to chemical testing for prospective foster parents; includes, but is not limited to drug and alcohol testing; authorizes office of children and family services to issue random chemical testing, including but not limited to, drug testing, to foster parents. | In Committee | 03/10/2025 |
| A06941 | Provides that no person shall be precluded from being deemed a "prospective relative guardian" based on whether such person's relationship with the child was established before or after such child's placement into foster care. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06966 | Relates to the required disclosure upon the release of a juvenile or adolescent offender from the custody of the office of children and family services of certain records that are necessary to ascertain the nature of such offender's conviction and would be beneficial in identifying and mitigating any risk that such offender could pose if released. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06982 | Includes outdoor nature-based childcare programs under the regulatory framework for child day care providers. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A07145 | Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; requires the local districts to report such list to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually; requires the social services districts to collect data regarding the income of families who have applied, were denied and received child care assistance and issue a report to the office of | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07170 | Prohibits a finding of educational neglect based solely on excessive absence from school in certain situations during the COVID-19 state of emergency, and requires the closure of investigations into claims of educational neglect when the child has not been provided with the resources or opportunity to participate in distance learning during the COVID-19 state of emergency or when the child's parent or caregiver is an essential worker, the fact that the child's parent or guardian is an essential | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| A07415 | Establishes a baby bond pilot program for foster youth. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07508 | Enacts the "Westchester county dual track demonstration program"; provides for establishing a demonstration program implementing a dual track child protective program in Westchester county; provides that such program shall be supervised by the office of children and family services; provides for the appointment of an advisory council and for various evaluations of the program; requires reports thereon. | In Committee | 03/28/2025 |
| A07603 | Provides additional support to children with complex needs under the jurisdiction of the state; requires data collection regarding children under the jurisdiction of the state; provides additional funding to council on children and families. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07643 | Relates to the provision of child care assistance program postcards. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| A07644 | Adds to the list of duties of the OCFS office of the ombudsperson relating to hearing grievances and complaints. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| A07747 | Relates to the fingerprinting of prospective child day care employees and sharing fingerprint results. | In Committee | 04/08/2025 |
| A08063 | Enacts the child abuse reporting expansion act; relates to making clergy members required reporters of child abuse or mistreatment. | In Committee | 04/22/2025 |
| A08248 | Lifts required approvals on the access of information pertaining to children by the New York city department of investigation. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| A08271 | Relates to the right to counsel in certain family court proceedings regarding violations of orders of child support and to establish paternity or parentage in the family court. | In Committee | 05/07/2025 |
| A08272 | Provides access to representation for adults in child protective proceedings of the family court who are financially eligible as determined by the chief administrator of the courts; provides access by attorneys for adults and children to records of the statewide registry of child abuse and maltreatment. | In Committee | 05/07/2025 |
| A08572 | Relates to orders of protection in child abuse and neglect proceedings in family court. | In Committee | 05/21/2025 |
| A08649 | Enacts the "safe haven baby box act" to provide a defense to endangering the welfare of a child; defines "safe haven baby box" to mean a secure, climate-controlled device installed at a facility staffed twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, including but not limited to hospitals, police stations, fire stations, and emergency medical service facilities. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| A08689 | Relates to unsealing unfounded child abuse and maltreatment reports upon a court order finding that justice requires the information in such reports is necessary for the determination of charges being investigated by a grand jury or for the purposes of prosecuting a violation of the penal law or otherwise necessary for the furtherance of justice. | In Committee | 05/29/2025 |
| S00201 | Provides that in the event child protective services receives a duplicate report on an open case that has not been founded, indicated or referred to services, such duplicate report shall merge with the open case and remain open an additional thirty days for further investigation. | Crossed Over | 05/28/2025 |
| S00253 | Provides all child protective service employees with supportive mental health services and resources. | Crossed Over | 06/10/2025 |
| S00550 | Requires a caller making a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the central register to leave their name and contact information; prohibits the office of children and family services from releasing information identifying a person who made such a report. | Crossed Over | 05/19/2025 |
| S00757 | Relates to the statewide presumptive eligibility standard; authorizes local social services districts to utilize child care block grant funds for the presumptive eligibility period to the extent permitted by federal law; amends the effectiveness thereof. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| S00784 | Relates to the termination of subsidies provided to adoptive parents for disabled or hard to place children; replaces references of "assistance" with "subsidy"; changes the effective date to 90 days. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| S00789 | Relates to findings in child abuse or neglect proceedings. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/10/2025 |
| S00815 | Modifies the safe landings for youth leaving foster care act or safe landings act to allow for the conversion of certain motions to become motions to return a respondent to foster care. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| S01056 | Relates to the provision of criminal history background checks free of charge to mentoring programs operated by not-for-profit corporations. | Crossed Over | 05/05/2025 |
| S01926 | Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; requires the local districts to report such list to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually; requires the social services districts to collect data regarding the income of families who have applied, were denied and received child care assistance and issue a report to the office of | Crossed Over | 03/19/2025 |
| S05228 | Directs the office of children and family services to establish a center for fatherhood initiatives to issue grants to any and all initiatives regarding the promotion and advancement of fatherhood, including but not limited to all marginalized fatherhood groups to help expand opportunities to improve parenting knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy. | Crossed Over | 06/04/2025 |
| S06225 | Requires inspections of child day care homes, programs and facilities include the full premises; requires providers of a family day care home or group family day care home to disclose to the office of children and family services all persons who reside in the home where child day care is being provided; requires all providers of child day care to receive training for, provide and maintain onsite opioid antagonists for use during emergencies. | Crossed Over | 06/11/2025 |