Bill Text: NJ A3639 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires licensed child care centers to provide annual notice of emergency procedure requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Children, Families and Food Security Committee [A3639 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3639-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3639

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires licensed child care centers to provide annual notice of emergency procedure requirements.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning licensed child care centers and supplementing P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a child care center licensed pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.) shall prepare and make available a notice of the child care center's emergency procedure requirements for ensuring children's safety and for communicating such requirements in the event of evacuation, lockdown, natural or civil disaster, and other emergencies, to every parent or legal guardian of a child attending the center.  The notice shall be sent annually, by certified mail, return receipt requested or by receipted first class mail addressed to the parent or legal guardian at the last known address identified in the child care center's records.  The notice shall be posted on the child care center's internet website or by other electronic means.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires child care centers licenses pursuant to P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.) to prepare and make available a notice of the child care center's emergency procedure requirements for ensuring children's safety and for communicating such requirements in the event of evacuation, lockdown, natural or civil disaster, and other emergencies, to every parent or legal guardian of a child attending the center.  The notice would be sent annually by certified mail, return receipt requested or by receipted first class mail addressed to the parent or legal guardian at the last known address identified in the center's records.  The center would also be required to post the notice on its internet website or by other electronic means.