Bill Text: NY A05302 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "Trenton's law"; requires that a parent or legal guardian furnish a copy of a child's birth certificate at the time of enrollment of such child into a child day care center; provides that if a copy is not supplied for review, the director or operator shall contact the statewide central register for missing and exploited children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to children and families [A05302 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05302-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5302
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MORINELLO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children and Families
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
          furnishing  of a copy of a birth certificate at the time of enrollment
          of a child into a child day care center
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Trenton's law".
     3    § 2. The social services law is amended by adding a new section  390-k
     4  to read as follows:
     5    §  390-k.  A  copy  of  a  child's  birth certificate furnished within
     6  fifteen days of enrollment into a child day care center; required. 1.  A
     7  child  day care center, group family day care home, family day care home
     8  or school age child day care facility, as  such  terms  are  defined  in
     9  section  three  hundred ninety of this article, shall review a copy of a
    10  child's birth certificate, presented by  a  parent  or  legal  guardian,
    11  within fifteen days of the time of enrollment of such child. Such review
    12  shall  be  documented  and  such  documentation shall be retained in the
    13  child's file.
    14    2. (a) If a copy of such birth certificate cannot be presented to  the
    15  director or operator of the facility within fifteen days of such enroll-
    16  ment,  such  director or operator shall make an inquiry to the statewide
    17  central register for missing children pursuant to section eight  hundred
    18  thirty-seven-e  of  the  executive law. If such child appears to match a
    19  child registered with the statewide central register for  missing  chil-
    20  dren,  or  one  registered  with  the  national crime information center
    21  register, the director or operator shall immediately contact  the  local
    22  law enforcement authority.
    23    (b)  No civil or criminal liability shall arise or attach to any child
    24  day care center, group family day care home, family  day  care  home  or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  school  age  child  day care facility or employee thereof for any act or
     2  omission to act as a result of, or in connection  with,  the  duties  or
     3  activities authorized or directed by this section.
     4    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.