File #: Int 1159-2023    Version: * Name: Background checks for child care providers, employees, and volunteers.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 9/14/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to background checks for child care providers, employees, and volunteers
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Althea V. Stevens, Farah N. Louis, Amanda Farías, Lynn C. Schulman, Julie Menin, Christopher Marte, Justin L. Brannan, Shahana K. Hanif, Shekar Krishnan, Julie Won, Diana I. Ayala, Crystal Hudson, Vickie Paladino
Council Member Sponsors: 14
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to consult with the Department of Education (DOE) when completing background checks for current or prospective child care providers, employees, and volunteers. Upon receiving a request for a background check, DOHMH would be required to consult with DOE to determine whether DOE has already completed a background check for the individual within the previous two years. If so, DOHMH would be required to request any relevant information obtained through the DOE background check required to satisfy the requirements for a background check conducted by DOHMH. DOHMH would remain required to complete any additional searches and obtain any additional information for an individual needed to satisfy the requirements for the agency’s background checks pursuant to any federal or state laws, rules or regulations, before clearing an individual for work as a child care provider or employee.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1159, 2. Int. No. 1159, 3. September 14, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-14-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 14, 2023, 6. Committee Report 10/12/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 10/12/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 10/12/23
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12/31/2023*Shaun Abreu City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/12/2023*Shaun Abreu Committee on Youth Services Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/12/2023*Shaun Abreu Committee on Youth Services Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/12/2023*Shaun Abreu Committee on Health Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/12/2023*Shaun Abreu Committee on Health Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023*Shaun Abreu City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023*Shaun Abreu City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1159

 

By Council Members Abreu, Stevens, Louis, Farías, Schulman, Menin, Marte, Brannan, Hanif, Krishnan, Won, Ayala, Hudson and Paladino

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to background checks for child care providers, employees, and volunteers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.21 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.21 Background checks for child care providers, employees, and volunteers. a. Upon receiving a request for a background check for a current or prospective child care provider, employee, or volunteer, the department shall consult with the department of education to determine whether the department of education has completed a background check for the individual within the previous 2 years. If the department of education has completed a background check for the individual within the previous 2 years, the department shall request from the department of education any relevant information obtained through the background check required to satisfy the requirements for a background check conducted by the department for child care providers, employees, or volunteers.

b. Notwithstanding the requirements of subdivision a of this section, the department shall complete any additional searches and obtain any additional information for an individual required to satisfy the background check requirements of any state or federal law, rule, or regulation before clearing an individual to work as a child care provider, employee, or volunteer.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

JEF

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