Section 390-C - [Multiple versions] Additional powers and duties of the office of children and family services1. The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and directed to promulgate necessary rules and regulations to ensure that, whenever a child day care provider is licensed or registered pursuant to section three hundred ninety of this article, the police department and fire department of the municipality wherein such licensee or registrant is authorized to operate and the state police shall be notified of the existence of the child day care center, its location and the fact that children are likely to be at that location in the event of an emergency. In those cases where the local municipality does not have a police department or a fire department, the sheriff of the appropriate county shall be notified in lieu thereof.2. The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and directed to conduct a study to determine the best method of compiling an accurate and accessible central record of information regarding the safe operation of each day care center licensed or registered within the state. Such record should include but not be limited to complaints by parents or guardians, internal incident reports, reports by police or fire departments, local or state building code violations, any relevant information gathered from utility providers or other visitors to the day care center and any additional information held by another state or local agency regarding a day care provider or a day care center location which could affect safe operation of a day care center.3. On or before the thirtieth day of June in the year next succeeding the year in which this section takes effect, the commissioner of children and family services shall report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly regarding the results of the study undertaken pursuant to subdivision two of this section.4. The commissioner of children and family services is authorized and directed, no later than one year from the effective date of this subdivision, to promulgate rules and regulations to require that local social services districts offer child day care providers, as defined in section three hundred ninety of this title, the option to be paid any monies owed for providing subsidized child care by a deposit directly into a bank account of the child day care provider. Such direct deposit shall only be made at the express written consent of the provider and shall be requested on forms provided by the local social services district and duly filled in by the provider. Such written consent can be revoked at any time by the provider in writing on forms provided by the local social services district.N.Y. Soc. Serv. Law § 390-C
Amended by New York Laws 2021, ch. 650,Sec. 1, eff. 12/1/2021.