Bill Text: NY S08905 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides training to staff members accepting registrations, issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities on the detection of controlled substances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-26 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S08905 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08905-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8905

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to training certain
          staff  accepting  registrations,  issuing   licenses   or   conducting
          inspections  of  child  day  care homes, programs or facilities on the
          recognition of controlled substances

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 390-a of the social services law,
     2  as amended by chapter 416 of the laws of 2000, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  All  office  of  children  and family services and municipal staff
     5  employed to accept registrations, issue licenses or conduct  inspections
     6  of  child day care homes, programs or facilities, subject to the amounts
     7  appropriated therefor, shall receive training in at least the following:
     8  regulations promulgated by the office of children  and  family  services
     9  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred  ninety of this title; child abuse
    10  prevention and identification; safety and security procedures  in  child
    11  day  care  settings,  which  shall  include  recognizing the presence of
    12  controlled substances as defined under section thirty-three hundred  six
    13  of  the  public health law; the principles of childhood development, and
    14  the laws, regulations and procedures governing the protection  of  chil-
    15  dren from abuse or maltreatment.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13310-03-4