Bill Text: NY A02836 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires child day care centers, public institutions for children and certain other facilities installing new or replacement window coverings on or after October 1, 2016, to install safer window coverings; requires child day care centers, public institutions for children and certain other facilities that have window coverings in place before October 1, 2016, to meet minimum safety standards established by ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2012.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-01 - reported referred to codes [A02836 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02836-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2836--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee  on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Children and Families in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,  sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  cord-
          less  window  coverings in child day care centers, public institutions
          for children and certain other facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-j to read as follows:
     3    § 390-j. Cordless window coverings required.  1. For purposes of  this
     4  section, the definitions set forth in ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2012 shall apply.
     5    2. Any agency boarding home, group home, child day care center, public
     6  institution  for  children,  or  any  authorized  agency not including a
     7  foster home, family day care center or  group  family  day  care  center
     8  installing  new  or  replacement  window  coverings  on or after October
     9  first, two thousand sixteen, shall  install  cordless  window  coverings
    10  that  meet  the  requirements  of ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2012 or any successor
    11  standard thereto adopted in accordance with ANSI procedures.  In  window
    12  applications  where  cordless  window  covering  products are either not
    13  available or impractical to operate due to window size, height, or shape
    14  and documented in writing by at  least  two  New  York  window  covering
    15  retailers,  then  non-cordless  window  covering  products that meet the
    16  requirements of ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2012 may be allowed.
    17    3. Window coverings  in  place  before  October  first,  two  thousand
    18  sixteen  in any agency boarding home, group home, child day care center,
    19  or public institution for children or any authorized agency not  includ-
    20  ing  a  foster  home,  family  day  care center or group family day care
    21  center shall:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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