STATE OF NEW YORK
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6265
IN SENATE
January 18, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to establishing a central registry of child day care
complaint investigations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 17-1308 to read as follows:
3 § 17-1308 Central registry of child day care complaint investigations.
4 There shall be established by the department a citywide central registry
5 listing all complaints against a child day care resulting in discipli-
6 nary investigations, actions, or administrative or judicial proceedings
7 instituted by the department. Such registry shall list the nature of the
8 complaint and the status of the investigation or proceeding.
9 § 2. Section 17-1303 of the administrative code of the city of New
10 York, as amended by local law number 22 of the city of New York for the
11 year 2010, is amended to read as follows:
12 § 17-1303 Posting of information on-site. Every child care service
13 must post a sign in a conspicuous place near its public entrance or
14 entrances stating that the most recent summary child care service
15 inspection report and the central registry of child day care complaint
16 investigations may be accessed through the website of the department or
17 by calling 311. The sign, whose form and content shall be provided or
18 approved by the department, shall be printed in clear and legible type,
19 in such a manner as to be readily visible to parents or other persons
20 entering the child care service and shall provide instructions on how to
21 gain access to the summary child care service inspection reports and the
22 central registry of child day care complaint investigations through the
23 department's website.
24 § 3. 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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