Bill Text: NY S03285 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires children's non-regulated camps to register annually with the department of health; imposes civil penalties for violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-22 - APPROVAL MEMO.83 [S03285 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03285-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3285--A
            Cal. No. 330

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  THOMAS,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL  -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer
          Protection -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
          and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed  by  Senate  and
          delivered  to  the  Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to
          third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its  place  in
          the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to children's non-re-
          gulated camps

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  1408 to read as follows:
     3    § 1408. Children's non-regulated camps. 1.  (a) All children's non-re-
     4  gulated  camps,  as  defined in subdivision one of section three hundred
     5  ninety-eight-f of the general business law, shall register annually with
     6  the department.  Such registration shall include  the  location  of  the
     7  non-regulated  camp and how many children attended the camp in the prior
     8  calendar year.
     9    (b) No person, firm, corporation or association shall operate in  this
    10  state without registering with such department.
    11    (c) A knowing violation of this section shall be punishable by a civil
    12  penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for each violation.
    13    2. The fee to register shall be two hundred fifty dollars, except that
    14  no  fee  shall be charged in the case of a children's non-regulated camp
    15  operated by a person, firm, corporation or association  for  charitable,
    16  philanthropic or religious purposes.
    17    3.  Non-regulated  camps  shall  not  be required to register with the
    18  department under subdivision one of this section or pay  any  fee  under
    19  subdivision  two  of this section until thirty days after the department
    20  has promulgated regulations and created any forms and notices  necessary
    21  for a camp to comply with such subdivisions.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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