N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 1990/016: L.L. 1990/016

Enactment date: 5/21/1990

Int. No. 375-A

By the Speaker (Council Member Vallone) and Council Members Horwitz and Maloney (by request of the Mayor); also Council Members Castaneira-Colon, Crispino, Dear, Dryfoos, Eisland, Eldridge, Fields, Foster, Friedlander, Gerges, Greitzer, Harrison, Leffler, Michels, Pinkett, Robles, Spigner, Ward, Williams, Wooten, Povman, Alter and Rivera

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a temporary commission on childhood and child caring programs

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Legislative findings. The council finds that the future of our city and of society at large rests with our children and that their education and care are therefore of paramount importance. The council finds that programs of education and care of children may improve the quality of the life of children, their parents and guardians. Such programs can play a significant role in improving the performance of children in schools, in providing support to families, in strengthening the community, in assisting children with special needs, such as disabled or homeless children, and in creating effective forms of public assistance. The council finds that employers in both the public and private sectors have a responsibility to the children of our city and should respond to incentives to provide childhood and child caring programs. It is therefore desirable to establish a temporary commission, the members of which are to be selected from such diverse groups as the business community, organized labor, the clergy, and the fields of education, science and the social sciences, for the purpose of conducting research and reporting to the mayor and the council on the status of day care and early childhood educational programs in the city and ways in which such programs may be improved, expanded and coordinated.

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 3. This local law shall take effect immediately.