Bill Text: NY S08150 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires children's non-regulated camps to register with the department of state; imposes civil penalties for violations; requires the department of state to submit a report to the department of health that includes a list of all registered children's non-regulated camps within the state; the location of each children's non-regulated camp; how many children attend a children's non-regulated camp; and a list of all entities that committed a violation of this section for the previous calendar year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-08 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S08150 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08150-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8150

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  children's
          non-regulated camps

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 398-f of the general business  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding four new subdivisions 4, 5, 6 and 7 to read as follows:
     3    4.  (a)  All children's non-regulated camps, as defined in subdivision
     4  one of this section, shall register with the department of state.
     5    (b) No person, firm, corporation or association shall operate in  this
     6  state without registering with such department.
     7    (c) A knowing violation of this section shall be punishable by a civil
     8  penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for each violation.
     9    5. The fee to register shall be two hundred fifty dollars, except that
    10  no  fee  shall be charged in the case of a children's non-regulated camp
    11  operated by a person, firm, corporation or association  for  charitable,
    12  philanthropic or religious purposes.
    13    6.  The  department  of  state  shall  submit  an annual report to the
    14  department of health that includes a list of all  registered  children's
    15  non-regulated  camps  within  the state; the location of each children's
    16  non-regulated camp; how many children attend a children's  non-regulated
    17  camp;  and  a  list  of  all entities that committed a violation of this
    18  section for the previous calendar year.
    19    7. Non-regulated camps shall not be  required  to  register  with  the
    20  department  under  subdivision four of this section or pay any fee under
    21  subdivision five of this section until thirty days after the  department
    22  has  promulgated regulations and created any forms and notices necessary
    23  for a camp to comply with such subdivisions.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15568-02-0
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