Bill Text: NY A02766 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires training with respect to adverse childhood experiences for day care providers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-16 - SIGNED CHAP.675 [A02766 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2766
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families
        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to standards and
          training for child day care
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subparagraphs (viii) and (ix) of paragraph (b) of subdivi-
     2  sion 3 of section 390-a of the social services law, subparagraph  (viii)
     3  as  amended  by chapter 552 of the laws of 2003 and subparagraph (ix) as
     4  amended by chapter 117 of the laws  of  2010,  are  amended  and  a  new
     5  subparagraph (x) is added to read as follows:
     6    (viii)   statutes  and  regulations  pertaining  to  child  abuse  and
     7  maltreatment; [and]
     8    (ix) for operators, program directors,  employees  and  assistants  of
     9  family  day  care  homes, group family day care homes and child day care
    10  centers, education and information on the identification, diagnosis  and
    11  prevention of shaken baby syndrome[.]; and
    12    (x)  adverse  childhood  experiences  (ACEs), focused on understanding
    13  trauma and on nurturing resiliency.
    14    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 390-a of  the  social  services  law  is
    15  amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
    16    (f) The office of children and family services shall issue regulations
    17  establishing that training with respect to adverse childhood experiences
    18  shall be included within the minimum health and safety training require-
    19  ments  for  child day care providers, including those that are otherwise
    20  legally exempt from the provisions of section three  hundred  ninety  of
    21  this  article, other than the parent, step-parent, guardian, or relative
    22  within the third degree of consanguinity of the parents or  step-parents
    23  of  such child who provides care only for a child or children related to
    24  them.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01064-01-9
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     1    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     2  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     3  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     4  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
     5  completed  by  the  commissioner  of  the  office of children and family
     6  services on or before such date.