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A00029 Summary:

BILL NOA00029A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03563-A
 
SPONSORRosenthal L
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §390-l, Soc Serv L
 
Requires the anchoring of furniture and electronics in child day care centers and certain other facilities.
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A00029 Actions:

BILL NOA00029A
 
01/09/2019referred to children and families
04/25/2019amend (t) and recommit to children and families
04/25/2019print number 29a
04/30/2019reported referred to codes
05/07/2019reported
05/09/2019advanced to third reading cal.272
05/13/2019passed assembly
05/13/2019delivered to senate
05/13/2019REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
05/22/2019SUBSTITUTED FOR S3563A
05/22/20193RD READING CAL.816
05/22/2019PASSED SENATE
05/22/2019RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
08/12/2019delivered to governor
08/13/2019signed chap.162
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A00029 Committee Votes:

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Chair:Jaffee DATE:04/30/2019AYE/NAY:14/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes
JaffeeAyeByrnesAye
ArroyoAyeFriendAye
FahyAyeMillerAye
DavilaAyeSmullenAye
BarnwellAye
WrightAye
VanelAye
Jean-PierreAye
FrontusAbsent
BurkeAbsent
CruzAye
RaynorAye

CODES Chair:Lentol DATE:05/07/2019AYE/NAY:20/0 Action: Favorable
LentolAyeRaAye
SchimmingerAyeGiglioAye
PretlowAyeMontesanoAye
CookAyeMorinelloAye
CymbrowitzAyePalumboAye
O'DonnellAyeGarbarinoAye
LavineAye
PerryAye
ZebrowskiAye
AbinantiAye
WeprinAye
MosleyAbsent
HevesiExcused
FahyAye
SeawrightAye
RosenthalAye

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A00029 Floor Votes:

DATE:05/13/2019Assembly Vote  YEA/NAY: 143/0
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Crespo
ER
Gantt
Yes
LiPetri
ER
Perry
Yes
Simon
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Crouch
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Simotas
ER
Arroyo
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Glick
Yes
Malliotakis
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Quart
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
ER
Davila
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stec
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
De La Rosa
Yes
Griffin
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Raia
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
DenDekker
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Stern
Yes
Barron
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Raynor
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Miller B
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tague
ER
Bichotte
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Miller MG
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
ER
Blake
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Miller ML
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Titus
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
D'Urso
Yes
Jaffee
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Rodriguez
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Mosley
Yes
Romeo
Yes
Walczyk
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Johns
Yes
Niou
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Walker
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jones
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Joyner
Yes
Norris
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Kim
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Byrne
Yes
Fernandez
Yes
Kolb
Yes
Ortiz
Yes
Salka
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Finch
Yes
Lalor
Yes
Otis
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Williams
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lawrence
Yes
Palumbo
Yes
Schimminger
Yes
Wright
Yes
Colton
Yes
Frontus
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Schmitt
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Cook
Yes
Galef
Yes
Lifton
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
ER
Seawright
Yes
Mr. Speaker

‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
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A00029 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A29A
 
SPONSOR: Rosenthal L
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring the anchoring of furniture and electronics in child day care centers and certain other facilities   PURPOSE: This bill protects children at child care centers and foster.,care agen- cies from the tipping of unsecured furniture.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: -Outlines the child care facilities and foster care agencies covered under the legislation -Requires large furniture and electronics to be properly secured within aforementioned facilities -Authorizes the Office of Children and Family Services to take action if a child care center doesn't immediately correct a violation of this act   JUSTIFICATION: In 2013, Million Dollar Baby recalled 18,000 dressers and in 2016 Ikea. recalled 29 million dressers and chests due to the serious tipOter hazard that they possessed. Moreover, ASTM International, a standards crganization that publishes voluntary consensus technical standards, developed recommendations that furniture be sold with proper anchoring systems to prevent tip over accidents. According to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, every 24 minutes a child goes to the emergenby room with an injury resulting from a television or piece of furniture tipping over. From 2000 to 2013, 84 percent of the 430 deaths from furniture tipping over involved children younger than the age of 10. Despite the clear danger that furniture tipping over can present to our children and the relative ease in preventing these accidents, there are no requirements for anchoring heavy dressers or tube style televisions in child care centers throughout New York State. This legislation would ensure that when we send our children to child care, they are safe from this all too common hazard by requiring that child care facilities prop- erly secure or anchor furniture and televisions to the wall. Such a requirement will require a minimal financial investment by daycare centers and could save significant sums of money by preventing emergency room visits.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2017-18: A.5284-C - Passed Assembly; S.3667-C - Reported to Finance   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the State.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect'180 days after it shall have become a law.
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A00029 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          29--A
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children  and  Families  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
          anchoring  of  furniture and electronics in child day care centers and
          certain other facilities
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-l to read as follows:
     3    § 390-l. Securing of furniture. 1. This section  shall  apply  to  any
     4  child  day care center as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of
     5  section three hundred ninety of this title, or any authorized agency  as
     6  defined  in  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision ten of section three hundred
     7  seventy-one of this title, including any agency boarding home  or  group
     8  home.
     9    2.  Any  facility to which this section applies shall take measures to
    10  securely anchor to the floors or walls of such  facility  all  items  of
    11  large  furniture  and  all electronic appliances capable of being tipped
    12  over due to design, height, weight, stability or other  features,  using
    13  angle-braces,  anchors or other anchoring devices. Any item of furniture
    14  or electronic device which cannot be so anchored shall be  removed  from
    15  the facility.
    16    3.  If  a violation of the provisions of this section is discovered by
    17  the office of children and family services or any local social  services
    18  district  authorized  to  inspect  the  facility  at which the violation
    19  occurs, the agency  discovering  the  violation  shall  provide  written
    20  notice  of  the  violation  to  the  operator of the facility and to the
    21  office of children and  family  services  if  such  office  is  not  the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01860-02-9

        A. 29--A                            2
 
     1  inspecting  agency  within  ten  calendar  days  of the discovery of the
     2  violation. The operator of the  facility  shall  correct  the  violation
     3  immediately, upon notice.  If the violation is not corrected, the office
     4  of  children  and family services may take enforcement action in accord-
     5  ance with the applicable sections of state law.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     8  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     9  tation  of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to
    10  be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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A00029 LFIN:

 NO LFIN
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A00029 Chamber Video/Transcript:

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