Legislative News

Governor SIGNS A.8827A/S.3895B - OCFS Issues Guidance on Implementation

Governor Paterson signed A.8827A/S.3895B on Wednesday, June 16. Since the late 1990's, home-based child care providers across New York have been working to secure the changes to ratios that are included in this bill. We made securing ratio changes a top priority when we sat down to negotiate with OCFS. Finally, the Bill that enables OCFS to implement the changes we negotiated has been passed by the legislature and signed into law by the Governor. Our e-mails, phone calls, the on-going work of our CSEA lobbyists in Albany and our focused persistence in the face of the challenges were the combined ingredients of our success.

OCFS has developed a plan to implement the provisions on ratios and licensing renewal. The OCFS implementation plan was designed to balance the agency's mandates to both roll-out the new provisions in the law across the State while ensuring health, safety and quality standards.

Read OCFS Letter and Bill Summary for information about how the Bill's provisions on ratios and licensing renewal will be implemented. OCFS will mail a letter to all Registered Family and Licensed Group Family Providers. DO NOT ENROLL additional children beyond existing ratios before reading the OCFS Guidance on implementation of these new provisions. To maintain compliance with OCFS regulations, registered family and licensed Group Family providers must follow OCFS guidelines and directives.

For more information, contact VOICE at voice@cseainc.org.

VOICE/CSEA Negotiating Team

Kim Bannister	Lenora Peterson
Sally Heater	Damaris Samolinski
Patrick Hogan	Cathey Sandman
Stacy Hoyt	Roxanne Savage
Dasie Lockett-Todd	Janet Turner
Rose McCabe	Pamela Wells
Charlese Mc Clain	Emilia White
Fran Nantista	Kittrell Whitlock
Wendy Nashid-Jackson	Katherine Williams
Cheryl Oare	Amy Yencer

Read OCFS Letter and Bill Summary
Visit the OCFS Website