Senate Bill S4615

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides no exception may be granted to a summer day camp which is dedicated to a single activity if that activity meets the criteria of a nonpassive recreational ac

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 05, 2012	print number 4615a
Jan 05, 2012	amend and recommit to health
Jan 04, 2012	referred to health
Apr 13, 2011	referred to health

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2011-S4615 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7204
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1392, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S1015
2015-2016: S912

2011-S4615 - Summary

Provides that no exception for public health laws or sanitary code provisions may be granted to a summer day camp, by the commissioner of health, which is dedicated to a single activity if that activity meets the criteria of a nonpassive recreational activity with significant risk of injury.

2011-S4615 - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S4615

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the public health law, in relation to single-purpose day camps

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To amend the definition of
"summer day camp" to include camps dedicated to a single activity
that meets the criteria of a non-passive recreational activity with
significant risk of injury.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one amends subdivision
two of section 1392 of the public health law to clarify that the
definition of "summer day camp" includes camps which engage in any
indoor or outdoor organized group activities involving one or more
non-passive recreational activities with significant risk of injury.
Section one also provides that the commissioner is not permitted to
grant an exception from the public health law and sanitary code
requirements to a summer day camp which is dedicated to a single
activity if that activity meets the criteria of a non-passive
recreational activity with significant risk of injury.

Section two provides that this act shall take effect April 1, 2012.

JUSTIFICATION:
As currently written, the definition of "summer day
camp" does not include camps dedicated to a single activity, such as
a football camp. Instead, the law states that a summer day camp must
involve "non-passive recreational activities with significant risk of
injury," which has been interpreted as requiring at least two such
activities. As a result, camps which are dedicated to only one
non-passive recreational activity with significant risk of injury are
completely unregulated. These single-purpose camps are subject to
neither the health and safety requirements in Article 13-B of the
public health law, nor to the regulations governing summer day camps
in the sanitary code.

There are many single-purpose camps in which children engage in
activities with a substantial risk of serious injury. For example,
the New York Times recently published an article about the increasing
popularity of carpentry and woodworking camps entitled "Kindergarten
Shop Class."(1) In these camps, children use power tools, including
saws to create their projects. A more common example of a
single-purpose
summer day camp is a football or hockey camp, which poses a
significant risk of injury due to the contact nature of the sport.

This legislation will close the loophole in the current law to ensure
that children attending all summer day camps are protected.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:


None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect April 1, 2012.

FOOTNOTE:
(1)  Scelfo, Julie. "Kingergarten Shop Class."March 30, 2012.

2011-S4615 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4615

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 13, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LIBOUS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to single-purpose day
  camps

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 1392 of the public health law, as
amended by chapter 439 of the laws  of  2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2.  "Summer  day  camp" shall mean a property consisting of a tract of
land and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may  be
pertinent  to  its use, any part of which may be occupied on a scheduled
basis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year
by children under sixteen years of age under  general  supervision,  for
the purpose of ANY indoor or outdoor organized group activities, involv-
ing ONE OR MORE nonpassive recreational activities with significant risk
of injury, as such activities are defined by the department in rules and
regulations,  for a period of less than twenty-four hours on any day the
property is so occupied, and on which no provisions are made  for  over-
night  occupancy by such children. The commissioner shall have the power
to except by rule from this article  and  the  sanitary  code  a  place,
facility  or  activity that is not within the intent of this definition,
PROVIDED THAT NO EXCEPTION MAY BE GRANTED TO A SUMMER DAY CAMP WHICH  IS
DEDICATED  TO A SINGLE ACTIVITY IF THAT ACTIVITY MEETS THE CRITERIA OF A
NONPASSIVE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY WITH SIGNIFICANT RISK OF INJURY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2012.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10749-01-1

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2011-S4615A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7204
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1392, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S1015
2015-2016: S912

2011-S4615A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2011-S4615A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S4615A

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the public health law, in relation to single-purpose day camps

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To amend the definition of
"summer day camp" to include camps dedicated to a single activity
that meets the criteria of a non-passive recreational activity with
significant risk of injury.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one amends subdivision
two of section 1392 of the public health law to clarify that the
definition of "summer day camp" includes camps which engage in any
indoor or outdoor organized group activities involving one or more
non-passive recreational activities with significant risk of injury.
Section one also provides that the commissioner is not permitted to
grant an exception from the public health law and sanitary code
requirements to a summer day camp which is dedicated to a single
activity if that activity meets the criteria of a non-passive
recreational activity with significant risk of injury.

Section two provides that this act shall take effect April 1, 2013.

JUSTIFICATION:
As currently written, the definition of "summer day
camp" does not include camps dedicated to a single activity, such as
a football camp. Instead, the law states that a summer day camp must
involve "non-passive recreational activities with significant risk of
injury," which has been interpreted as requiring at least two such
activities. As a result, camps which are dedicated to only one
non-passive recreational activity with significant risk of injury are
completely unregulated. These single-purpose camps are subject to
neither the health and safety requirements in Article 13-B of the
public health law, nor to the regulations governing summer day camps
in the sanitary code.

There are many single-purpose camps in which children engage in
activities with a substantial risk of serious injury. For example,
the New York Times recently published an article about the increasing
popularity of carpentry and woodworking camps entitled "Kindergarten
Shop Class."(1) In these camps, children use power tools, including
saws to create their projects. A more common example of a
single-purpose
summer day camp is a football or hockey camp, which poses a
significant risk of injury due to the contact nature of the sport.

This legislation will close the loophole in the current law to ensure
that children attending all summer day camps are protected.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:


None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect April 1, 2013.

FOOTNOTE:
(1)  Scelfo, Julie. "Kingergarten Shop Class."March 30, 2012.

2011-S4615A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 4615--A

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 13, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LIBOUS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
  the  Committee  on  Health 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 public health law, in relation to single-purpose day
  camps

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1392 of the public health law,  as
amended  by  chapter  439  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
follows:
  2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of  a  tract  of
land  and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be
pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied on  a  scheduled
basis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year
by  children  under  sixteen years of age under general supervision, for
the purpose of ANY indoor or outdoor organized group activities, involv-
ing ONE OR MORE nonpassive recreational activities with significant risk
of injury, as such activities are defined by the department in rules and
regulations, for a period of less than twenty-four hours on any day  the
property  is  so occupied, and on which no provisions are made for over-
night occupancy by such children. The commissioner shall have the  power
to  except  by  rule  from  this  article and the sanitary code a place,
facility or activity that is not within the intent of  this  definition,
PROVIDED  THAT NO EXCEPTION MAY BE GRANTED TO A SUMMER DAY CAMP WHICH IS
DEDICATED TO A SINGLE ACTIVITY IF THAT ACTIVITY MEETS THE CRITERIA OF  A
NONPASSIVE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY WITH SIGNIFICANT RISK OF INJURY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2013.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10749-02-2

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Tom Libous

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

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2011-S4615 - Summary

2011-S4615 - Sponsor Memo

2011-S4615 - Bill Text download pdf

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Thomas K. Duane

Suzi Oppenheimer

2011-S4615A (ACTIVE) - Details

2011-S4615A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2011-S4615A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S4615A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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