NY Soc Serv L § 390-K (2021)
2021 New York Laws SOS - Social Services Article 6 - Children Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children 390-K - Child Care Availability Taskforce.

* §  390-k.  Child  care  availability  taskforce.  1.  There shall be established within the office of children and family  services  a  child care   taskforce  for  the  purpose  of  evaluating  the  need  for  and availability of child care throughout the state.   2. The taskforce shall be chaired by a representative of the executive chamber and the commissioners of  the  office  of  children  and  family services and the department of labor, or their designees. Members of the taskforce shall serve without compensation for three year terms, but may be  reimbursed  for  actual  costs  incurred  for  participation on such taskforce. Ensuring adequate geographic representation, members  of  the taskforce shall be appointed by the governor and comprised as follows:  (a)  three  individuals  shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the speaker of the assembly, at least one of whom shall be a parent  who has utilized subsidized child care;  (b)  three  individuals  shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the temporary president of the senate, at least one of whom shall  be  a parent who has utilized subsidized child care;  (c) two representatives of a child care resource and referral agency;  (d) two representatives of home-based child care providers;  (e) two representatives of center-based child care providers;  (f) two representatives from the business community;  (g)   two  representatives  from  unions  that  represent  child  care providers; and  (h) at least one representative from each of the following entities:  (i) the office of temporary and disability assistance;  (ii) the council on children and families;  (iii) the department of taxation and finance;  (iv) a regional economic development council;  (v) the state university of New York or the  city  university  of  New York;  (vi) the state education department;  (vii) the early childhood advisory council;  (viii)  a  social  service  district or county government or an entity that advocates on behalf of social services or county governments; and  (ix) a non-profit child care advocacy organization.   3. The taskforce shall examine the following:  (a) affordable child care with  a  focus  on  the  cost  of  care  for families and factors that contribute to such costs;  (b) access to and availability of subsidized child care, including the identification  of  barriers  families  eligible  under  state  law face obtaining or utilizing such subsidies;  (c) availability of child care for non-traditional work hours;  (d) whether parents are voluntarily leaving the workforce due to  lack of  affordable or accessible child care, and the demographic information of such parents, if known;  (e) whether employers have identified lack of child care as  a  reason for a shortage of a qualified workforce;  (f) the impact of child care, or lack thereof, on economic development throughout the state;  (g) varying levels of quality of care throughout the state;  (h)  availability of quality child care by economic development region including identification of underserved communities;  (i) whether regulatory or statutory changes could  promote  access  to child  care  and  improve  health  and  safety  standards  in child care programs;  (j) business incentives to increase child care access and  the  impact on tax credits and deductions relating to child care;  (k)  ways  to  address  concerns  identified  in  the  course  of  the examination required by this subdivision; and  (l) anything else the taskforce deems necessary.   4. The taskforce shall report its interim findings and recommendations in  accordance  with  subdivision three of this section to the governor, the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate no later than November first, two thousand eighteen and its final  findings and  recommendations  no  later than December thirty-first, two thousand twenty.   * NB Repealed December 31, 2021