Assembly Bill A618

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires single-purpose day camps to ascertain whether an employee or volunteer is listed on the state sex offender registry pursuant to article six-C of the correction law

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A618 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4082
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 13-B Art Head, §§1392 & 1393, add §1394-c, Pub Health L; amd §424-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5239
2013-2014: A7487, S1986
2015-2016: A1002, S1750
2019-2020: A1081, S152
2021-2022: S3966

2017-A618 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires single-purpose day camps to ascertain whether an employee or volunteer is listed on the state sex offender registry pursuant to article six-C of the correction law; defines "single-purpose day camp".

2017-A618 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    618
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social  services  law,  in
   relation to requiring single-purpose day camps to ascertain whether an
   employee  or  volunteer  is  listed on the state sex offender registry
   pursuant to article six-C of the correction law
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  article heading of article 13-B of the public health
 law, as added by chapter 515 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read  as
 follows:
             REGULATION OF OVERNIGHT, SINGLE-PURPOSE DAY, SUMMER
             DAY, AND TRAVELING SUMMER DAY CAMPS FOR CHILDREN
   §  2. Section 1392 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
   3-A. "SINGLE-PURPOSE 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 SUPER-
 VISION, FOR THE PURPOSE OF A SINGLE INDOOR OR  OUTDOOR  ORGANIZED  GROUP
 ACTIVITY,  INVOLVING A NONPASSIVE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY 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 OVERNIGHT 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  DEFI-
 NITION.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03061-01-7

              

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