Bill Text: NY S00432 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires child day care centers, public institutions for children and certain other facilities installing new or replacement window coverings on or after October 1, 2016, to install safer window coverings; requires child day care centers, public institutions for children and certain other facilities that have window coverings in place before October 1, 2016 to meet minimum safety standards established by ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2012.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00432 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00432-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         432--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and  Families  --
          recommitted  to  the  Committee on Children and Families in accordance
          with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring cord-
          less window coverings 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-j to read as follows:
     3    §  390-j. Cordless window coverings required.  1. For purposes of this
     4  section, the definitions set forth in ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2012 shall apply.
     5    2. Any agency boarding home, group home, child day care center, public
     6  institution for children, or  any  authorized  agency  not  including  a
     7  foster  home,  family  day  care  center or group family day care center
     8  installing new or replacement  window  coverings  on  or  after  October
     9  first,  two  thousand  sixteen,  shall install cordless window coverings
    10  that meet the requirements of ANSI/WCMA  A100.1-2012  or  any  successor
    11  standard  thereto adopted in accordance with ANSI procedures.  In window
    12  applications where cordless window  covering  products  are  either  not
    13  available or impractical to operate due to window size, height, or shape
    14  and  documented  in  writing  by  at  least two New York window covering
    15  retailers, then non-cordless window  covering  products  that  meet  the
    16  requirements of ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2012 may be allowed.
    17    3.  Window  coverings  in  place  before  October  first, two thousand
    18  sixteen in any agency boarding home, group home, child day care  center,
    19  or  public institution for children or any authorized agency not includ-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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