Bill Text: NY A04097 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the use of canines trained to detect drugs and firearms during inspections of day care facilities or premises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - referred to children and families [A04097 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04097-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4097

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  inspections  of
          child day care facilities

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 390 of the social
     2  services law, as amended by section 5 of part H of  chapter  56  of  the
     3  laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  The  office of children and family services may make announced or
     5  unannounced inspections of the records and premises of  any  child  care
     6  provider,  whether or not such provider has a license from, or is regis-
     7  tered with, the office of children and family services.  The  office  of
     8  children  and  family services shall make unannounced inspections of the
     9  records and premises of any child day care provider within fifteen  days
    10  after  the  office  of children and family services receives a complaint
    11  that, if true, would indicate such provider does  not  comply  with  the
    12  applicable  regulations of the office of children and family services or
    13  with statutory requirements. If the complaint indicates that  there  may
    14  be  imminent  danger  to the children, the office of children and family
    15  services shall investigate the complaint no later than the next  day  of
    16  operation  of  the  provider. The office of children and family services
    17  may provide for inspections  through  the  purchase  of  services.  When
    18  conducting  inspections  pursuant to this paragraph, the office of chil-
    19  dren and family services, or a service contracted by such office,  shall
    20  employ  the  use  of canines specially trained to detect the presence of
    21  drugs and firearms.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    23  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06547-01-5