Provides guidance to certain staff accepting registrations, issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities on the identification of circumstances that may indicate the presence of controlled substances and referrals to law enforcement.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
January 7, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing guid-
ance to certain staff accepting registrations, issuing licenses or
conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities
on the identification of circumstances that may indicate the presence
of controlled substances and referrals to law enforcement; and to
amend a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the social services law
relating to training certain staff accepting registrations, issuing
licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs
or facilities on the recognition of controlled substances, as proposed
in legislative bills numbers S. 6226 and A. 1382, in relation to the
effectiveness thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 390-a of the social services law,
as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the social services
law relating to training certain staff accepting registrations, issuing
licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or
facilities on the recognition of controlled substances, as proposed in
legislative bills numbers S. 6226 and A. 1382, is amended to read as
follows:
1. All office of children and family services and municipal staff
employed to accept registrations, issue licenses or conduct inspections
of child day care homes, programs or facilities, subject to the amounts
appropriated therefor, shall receive: (A) training in at least the
following: regulations promulgated by the office of children and family
services pursuant to section three hundred ninety of this title; child
abuse prevention and identification; safety and security procedures in
child day care settings[, which shall include recognizing the presence
of controlled substances as defined under section thirty-three hundred
six of the public health law]; the principles of childhood development,
and the laws, regulations and procedures governing the protection of
children from abuse or maltreatment; AND (B) GUIDANCE ON IDENTIFICATION
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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