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                                   1508
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to minimum stand-
   ards for first aid and enrollment in child day care centers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2-a of section 390 of the
 social services law, as added by chapter 416 of the  laws  of  2000,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  The office of children and family services shall promulgate regu-
 lations  which  establish  minimum  quality  program  requirements   for
 licensed  and  registered child day care homes, programs and facilities.
 Such requirements shall include but not be limited to (i) the  need  for
 age  appropriate  activities,  materials and equipment to promote cogni-
 tive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional,  language  and
 recreational  development  of  children  in  care in a safe, healthy and
 caring environment (ii) principles of childhood development (iii) appro-
 priate staff/child ratios for family day care homes,  group  family  day
 care  homes, school age day care programs and day care centers, provided
 however that such staff/child ratios shall not be  less  stringent  than
 applicable  staff/child  ratios  as set forth in part four hundred four-
 teen, four hundred sixteen, four hundred seventeen or four hundred eigh-
 teen of title eighteen of the New York code of rules and regulations  as
 of January first, two thousand (iv) appropriate levels of supervision of
 children in care (v) minimum standards for sanitation, health, infection
 control,  nutrition,  buildings  and  equipment, safety, security proce-
 dures, first aid INCLUDING THE CONTENTS OF AN ON-SITE FIRST AID KIT THAT
 SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO AN ANTISEPTIC OR ANTIBACTERIAL OINT-
 MENT,  fire  prevention,  fire  safety,  evacuation  plans  and  drills,
 prevention  of  child  abuse  and maltreatment, staff qualifications and
 training, record keeping, and child  behavior  management  (VI)  MINIMUM
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03014-01-5
              

 A. 1508                             2
 
 STANDARDS  FOR  ENROLLMENT  OF CHILDREN INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF FORMS
 UPON ENROLLMENT WHICH SHALL INCLUDE AUTHORIZATION AND CONSENT FORMS  FOR
 THE  ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION INCLUDING FOR ANTISEPTIC OR ANTIBACTE-
 RIAL  OINTMENT  AND  THE CHILD DAY CARE PROVIDER'S HEALTH CARE PLAN IN A
 PAPER OR ELECTRONIC FORMAT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.