Requires the division of state police and local police departments to notify a licensed child day care center or group day care home in the area of certain emergency situations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6162
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the general municipal law, in
relation to requiring the division of state police and local police
departments to notify a licensed child day care center or group day
care home in the area of certain emergency situations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 236 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 236. Notification of emergency situations. The division of state
4 police shall notify every child day care provider, child day care
5 center, group family day care home, family day care home, and school
6 aged child care home of any emergency situation occurring in the vicini-
7 ty of such child day care center or group day care home, including but
8 not limited to any school evacuations or lockdowns, and any active
9 shooter incidents occurring in the vicinity of such child day care
10 center or group day care home. Such notice shall be given by a telephone
11 call made to a designated individual at each child day care provider,
12 child day care center, group family day care home, family day care home,
13 and school aged child care home within thirty minutes of the occurrence
14 of the emergency situation. Each child day care provider, child day care
15 center, group family day care home, family day care home, and school
16 aged child care home shall provide the local department of the division
17 of state police with the name and contact information for the person it
18 has selected as the designated person to receive notice of such emergen-
19 cies.
20 § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section
21 209-uu to read as follows:
22 § 209-uu. Notification of emergency situations. Each police department
23 organized at the county, city or town level shall notify every child day
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 care provider, child day care center, group family day care home, family
2 day care home, and school aged child care home of any emergency situ-
3 ation occurring in the vicinity of such child day care center or group
4 day care home, including but not limited to any school evacuations or
5 lockdowns, and any active shooter incidents occurring in the vicinity of
6 such child day care provider, child day care center, group family day
7 care home, family day care home, and school aged child care home. Such
8 notice shall be given by a telephone call made to a designated individ-
9 ual at each child day care provider, child day care center, group family
10 day care home, family day care home, and school aged child care home
11 within thirty minutes of the occurrence of the emergency situation. Each
12 child day care provider, child day care center, group family day care
13 home, family day care home, and school aged child care home shall
14 provide the local county, city and town police departments with the name
15 and contact information for the person it has selected as the designated
16 person to receive notice of such emergencies.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
