Relates to minimum standards for first aid and enrollment in child day care centers; requires a child day care center's first aid kit include antiseptic or antibacterial ointment; requires a day care center to provide medication consent forms and a copy of its health care plan upon a child's enrollment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1508
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2-a of section 390 of the
2 social services law, as added by chapter 416 of the laws of 2000, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) The office of children and family services shall promulgate regu-
5 lations which establish minimum quality program requirements for
6 licensed and registered child day care homes, programs and facilities.
7 Such requirements shall include but not be limited to (i) the need for
8 age appropriate activities, materials and equipment to promote cogni-
9 tive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional, language and
10 recreational development of children in care in a safe, healthy and
11 caring environment (ii) principles of childhood development (iii) appro-
12 priate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day
13 care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers, provided
14 however that such staff/child ratios shall not be less stringent than
15 applicable staff/child ratios as set forth in part four hundred four-
16 teen, four hundred sixteen, four hundred seventeen or four hundred eigh-
17 teen of title eighteen of the New York code of rules and regulations as
18 of January first, two thousand (iv) appropriate levels of supervision of
19 children in care (v) minimum standards for sanitation, health, infection
20 control, nutrition, buildings and equipment, safety, security proce-
21 dures, first aid including the contents of an on-site first aid kit that
22 shall include but not be limited to an antiseptic or antibacterial oint-
23 ment, fire prevention, fire safety, evacuation plans and drills,
24 prevention of child abuse and maltreatment, staff qualifications and
25 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.
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1 standards for enrollment of children including the provision of forms
2 upon enrollment which shall include authorization and consent forms for
3 the administration of medication including for antiseptic or antibacte-
4 rial ointment and the child day care provider's health care plan in a
5 paper or electronic format.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
7 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
8 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
9 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
10 on or before such effective date.
