Bill Text: NY A08372 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits day care centers from requiring children 5 and under to wear masks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - held for consideration in children and families [A08372 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08372-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8372

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 20, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  B. MILLER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to prohibit day care centers from requiring children ages five or
          under to wear face coverings or face masks

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

     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding any other provision law, rule, regulation
     2  or other directive to the contrary,  no  state  licensed  or  registered
     3  child  care  centers,  home-based  group  family  and  family child care
     4  programs, or after-school child care programs shall require, as a condi-
     5  tion of receiving any service or entering any place, any  child  who  is
     6  five  years  of age or younger to wear a face covering or face mask when
     7  such purpose for wearing the covering or mask is related to the COVID-19
     8  virus.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13235-01-1