Bill Text: NY A02766 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires training with respect to adverse childhood experiences for day care providers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-16 - SIGNED CHAP.675 [A02766 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02766-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2766--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Children  and  Families  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  standards  and
          training for child day care

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraphs (viii) and (ix) of paragraph (b) of  subdivi-
     2  sion  3  of  section  390-a  of  the  social services law, as amended by
     3  section 7 of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019, are amended and a
     4  new subparagraph (x) is added to read as follows:
     5    (viii)  statutes  and  regulations  pertaining  to  child  abuse   and
     6  maltreatment; [and]
     7    (ix)  for  operators,  program  directors, employees and assistants of
     8  family day care homes, group family day care homes and  child  day  care
     9  centers,  education and information on the identification, diagnosis and
    10  prevention of shaken baby syndrome[.]; and
    11    (x) adverse childhood experiences  (ACEs),  focused  on  understanding
    12  trauma and on nurturing resiliency.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    15  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    16  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    17  completed  by  the  commissioner  of  the  office of children and family
    18  services on or before such date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01064-02-9
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