Int. No. 1484
By Council Member Menin
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating apprenticeships for early childhood education
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 21-414 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 83 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:
§ 21-414. Summer youth employment program. a. Definition. For [the] purposes of this section, the [following term has the following meaning:
Summer youth employment program. The] term “summer youth employment program” means the program operated by the department of youth and community development to provide youth with opportunities for summer employment.
b. The department shall operate a summer youth employment program. In operating the program, the department shall:
1. Coordinate with other agencies to develop summer youth employment opportunities within such agencies; each agency shall have a goal of accepting summer youth employment program participants equal to at least .5 percent of its total full-time headcount; [and]
2. Coordinate with the department of small business services to promote the summer youth employment program to businesses with which such department has contact[.]; and
3. Provide employment, apprenticeship, internship, and credit-bearing opportunities for summer youth in the childcare and early childhood education sectors.
c. On or before January 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council a report regarding the summer youth employment program. Such report shall include the number of youth employed pursuant to the summer youth employment program during the previous summer, disaggregated by placement in each of the government, private, and nonprofit sectors. For the government sector, the report shall disaggregate the number of youth employed by each agency. For any agency that does not meet the goal of employing at least .5 percent of its total full-time headcount, the report shall include an explanation of why the goal was not met.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.ACK
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10/22/2025