Bill Text: NY A00029 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the anchoring of furniture and electronics in child day care centers and certain other facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-13 - signed chap.162 [A00029 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           29
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children and Families
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
          anchoring  of  furniture  and  electronics  in child day care centers,
          public institutions for children and certain other facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-l to read as follows:
     3    § 390-l. Securing of furniture. 1. This section  shall  apply  to  any
     4  agency boarding home, group home, child day care center, public institu-
     5  tion for children, or any authorized agency not including a foster home,
     6  family day care center or group family day care center.
     7    2.  Any  facility to which this section applies shall take measures to
     8  securely anchor to the floors or walls of such  facility  all  items  of
     9  large  furniture  and  all electronic appliances capable of being tipped
    10  over due to design, height, weight, stability or other  features,  using
    11  angle-braces,  anchors or other anchoring devices. Any item of furniture
    12  or electronic device which cannot be so anchored shall be  removed  from
    13  the facility.
    14    3.  If  a violation of the provisions of this section is discovered by
    15  the office of children and family services or any local social  services
    16  district  authorized  to  inspect  the  facility  at which the violation
    17  occurs, the agency  discovering  the  violation  shall  provide  written
    18  notice  of  the  violation  to  the  operator of the facility and to the
    19  office of children and  family  services  if  such  office  is  not  the
    20  inspecting  agency  within  ten  calendar  days  of the discovery of the
    21  violation. The operator of the  facility  shall  correct  the  violation
    22  immediately, upon notice.  If the violation is not corrected, the office
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01860-01-9
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     1  of  children  and family services may take enforcement action in accord-
     2  ance with the applicable sections of state law.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed  to
     7  be made and completed on or before such effective date.