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Senate Bill S8775

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides guidance to certain children and family services and municipal staff on the identification of circumstances that may indicate the presence of controlled substances and referrals to law enforcement

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2025-S8775 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9483
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §390-a, Soc Serv L; amd §2, Chap of 2025 (as proposed in S.6226 & A.1382)
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8082

2025-S8775 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-S8775 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8775 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8775
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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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