Bill Text: NY A00248 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires children's non-regulated camps to register annually with the department of state; imposes civil penalties for violations; requires the department of state to submit a report to the department of health that includes a list of all registered children's non-regulated camps within the state; the location of each children's non-regulated camp; how many children attend a children's non-regulated camp; and a list of all entities that committed a violation of this section for the previous calendar year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-10 - print number 248a [A00248 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00248-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         248--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ZEBROWSKI, SIMON, QUART, WILLIAMS -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs  and  Protection  --
          recommitted  to  the  Committee  on Consumer Affairs and Protection in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  children's
          non-regulated camps

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 398-f of the general business  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding four new subdivisions 4, 5, 6 and 7 to read as follows:
     3    4.  (a)  All children's non-regulated camps, as defined in subdivision
     4  one of this section, shall register  annually  with  the  department  of
     5  state.
     6    (b)  No person, firm, corporation or association shall operate in this
     7  state without registering with such department.
     8    (c) A knowing violation of this section shall be punishable by a civil
     9  penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for each violation.
    10    5. The fee to register shall be two hundred fifty dollars, except that
    11  no fee shall be charged in the case of a children's  non-regulated  camp
    12  operated  by  a person, firm, corporation or association for charitable,
    13  philanthropic or religious purposes.
    14    6. The department of state  shall  submit  an  annual  report  to  the
    15  department  of  health that includes a list of all registered children's
    16  non-regulated camps within the state; the location  of  each  children's
    17  non-regulated  camp; how many children attend a children's non-regulated
    18  camp; and a list of all entities that  committed  a  violation  of  this
    19  section for the previous calendar year.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03681-03-2
        A. 248--A                           2

     1    7.  Non-regulated  camps  shall  not  be required to register with the
     2  department under subdivision four of this section or pay any  fee  under
     3  subdivision  five of this section until thirty days after the department
     4  has promulgated regulations and created any forms and notices  necessary
     5  for a camp to comply with such subdivisions.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.