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
