Amd §390-a, Soc Serv L; amd §2, Chap of 2025 (as proposed in S.6226 & A.1382)
Provides guidance to certain staff accepting registrations, issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities on the identification of circumstances that may indicate the presence of controlled substances and referrals to law enforcement.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8775
IN SENATE
January 8, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing guid-
ance to certain staff accepting registrations, issuing licenses or
conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities
on the identification of circumstances that may indicate the presence
of controlled substances and referrals to law enforcement; and to
amend a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the social services law
relating to training certain staff accepting registrations, issuing
licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs
or facilities on the recognition of controlled substances, as proposed
in legislative bills numbers S. 6226 and A. 1382, in relation to the
effectiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 390-a of the social services law,
2 as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the social services
3 law relating to training certain staff accepting registrations, issuing
4 licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or
5 facilities on the recognition of controlled substances, as proposed in
6 legislative bills numbers S. 6226 and A. 1382, is amended to read as
7 follows:
8 1. All office of children and family services and municipal staff
9 employed to accept registrations, issue licenses or conduct inspections
10 of child day care homes, programs or facilities, subject to the amounts
11 appropriated therefor, shall receive: (a) training in at least the
12 following: regulations promulgated by the office of children and family
13 services pursuant to section three hundred ninety of this title; child
14 abuse prevention and identification; safety and security procedures in
15 child day care settings[, which shall include recognizing the presence
16 of controlled substances as defined under section thirty-three hundred
17 six of the public health law]; the principles of childhood development,
18 and the laws, regulations and procedures governing the protection of
19 children from abuse or maltreatment; and (b) guidance on identification
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of circumstances that may indicate the presence of controlled substances
2 and referrals to law enforcement.
3 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the social
4 services law relating to training certain staff accepting registrations,
5 issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes,
6 programs or facilities on the recognition of controlled substances, as
7 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6226 and A. 1382, is amended to
8 read as follows:
9 § 2. This act shall take effect [immediately] on the one hundred
10 eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that
12 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
13 same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the social
14 services law relating to training certain staff accepting registrations,
15 issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes,
16 programs or facilities on the recognition of controlled substances, as
17 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6226 and A. 1382, takes effect.
