Bill Text: NY A00051 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that at least one employee at each family day care center, group family day care center, school-aged child care program, and child day care center be trained in administering an opioid antagonist.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to children and families [A00051 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00051-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           51

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  requiring  at
          least one employee of each child day care to be trained in administer-
          ing an opioid antagonist

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

     1    Section 1. Section 390-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  a. The site provider of a family day care home or group family day
     4  care home shall provide that at least one employee  who  holds  a  valid
     5  certification in a course of study in how to administer an opioid antag-
     6  onist,  as  defined  by subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision
     7  three of section thirty-three hundred nine of the public health law,  be
     8  on  premises  during the operating hours of such family day care home or
     9  group family day care home.
    10    b. The site supervisor  of  a  school-age  child  care  program  shall
    11  provide  that at least one employee who holds a valid certification in a
    12  course of study in how to administer an opioid antagonist, as defined by
    13  subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section  thir-
    14  ty-three  hundred  nine  of the public health law, be on premises during
    15  the operating hours of such school-age child care program.
    16    c. The director of a child day care center shall provide that at least
    17  one employee who holds a valid certification in a course of study in how
    18  to administer an opioid antagonist, as defined by  subparagraph  (i)  of
    19  paragraph  (a) of subdivision three of section thirty-three hundred nine
    20  of the public health law, be on premises during the operating  hours  of
    21  such child day care center.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00511-01-5