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legislation/us/states/ny/2025-2026/a-612.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to the appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers"
+description: "Removes certain requirements on what the office of children and family services can determine to be an appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "A 612"
+citation: "New York A 612 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Hevesi"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-12-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8cf5c4c-cf29-4efc-8021-ea31d9e6e5e6"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A612"
+source_hash: "5151a1ef5c3e119f863eecc703f082dfb04efb9111779b81f88ce422155b779e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York A 612 (2025-2026) — Relates to the appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers
+
+Removes certain requirements on what the office of children and family services can determine to be an appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A612** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A612&term=2025&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **147–2** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **58–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andrew Hevesi — primary (person)
+- Brian Maher — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Eachus — cosponsor (person)
+- Demond Meeks — cosponsor (person)
+- Harvey Epstein — cosponsor (person)
+- Jen Lunsford — cosponsor (person)
+- Karl Brabenec — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Slater — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-25** REPORTED
+- **2025-02-27** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.26
+- **2025-03-25** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-03-25** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2025-03-25** REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-11** SUBSTITUTED FOR S278
+- **2025-06-11** 3RD READING CAL.1794
+- **2025-06-11** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-06-11** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.644 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8cf5c4c-cf29-4efc-8021-ea31d9e6e5e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+