Bill Text: NY S03563 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3563 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-13 - signed chap.162 [S03563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03563-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3563--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 8, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SERRANO,  KENNEDY,  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Children  and  Families -- 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  the
          anchoring  of  furniture and electronics in child day care centers 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  child  day care center as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of
     5  section three hundred ninety of this title, or any authorized agency  as
     6  defined  in  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision ten of section three hundred
     7  seventy-one of this title, including any agency boarding home  or  group
     8  home.
     9    2.  Any  facility to which this section applies shall take measures to
    10  securely anchor to the floors or walls of such  facility  all  items  of
    11  large  furniture  and  all electronic appliances capable of being tipped
    12  over due to design, height, weight, stability or other  features,  using
    13  angle-braces,  anchors or other anchoring devices. Any item of furniture
    14  or electronic device which cannot be so anchored shall be  removed  from
    15  the facility.
    16    3.  If  a violation of the provisions of this section is discovered by
    17  the office of children and family services or any local social  services
    18  district  authorized  to  inspect  the  facility  at which the violation
    19  occurs, the agency  discovering  the  violation  shall  provide  written
    20  notice  of  the  violation  to  the  operator of the facility and to the
    21  office of children and  family  services  if  such  office  is  not  the
    22  inspecting  agency  within  ten  calendar  days  of the discovery of the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01860-03-9

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     1  violation. The operator of the  facility  shall  correct  the  violation
     2  immediately, upon notice.  If the violation is not corrected, the office
     3  of  children  and family services may take enforcement action in accord-
     4  ance with the applicable sections of state law.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     6  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     7  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     8  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed  to
     9  be made and completed on or before such effective date.