File #: Int 1461-2025    Version: * Name: Inspections and routine closures of child care centers.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 11/12/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to inspections and routine closures of child care centers
Sponsors: Tiffany L. Cabán, Jennifer Gutiérrez
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), upon issuing an order to close a child care center pursuant to a determination that such center is being operated in a manner that may give rise to an imminent health hazard or otherwise presents a risk of endangering the health or safety of children or other persons, to post a copy of the closing order at the entrance to the child care center, and to provide a copy of the closing order to the parents or other persons who arrive at the child care center. This bill would also require DOHMH to post summary child care service inspection reports no later than 24 hours following each inspection of a child care service.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1461, 2. Int. No. 1461, 3. Memorandum in Support, 4. November 12, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1461

 

By Council Members Cabán and Gutiérrez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to inspections and routine closures of child care centers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 17-1302 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 22 for the year 2010, is amended to read as follows:

 § 17-1302 Access to summary child care service inspection reports. No later than 24 hours [F]following each inspection of a child care service, the department shall post a summary child care service inspection report on the department's website and shall make summary child care service inspection reports available by calling 311.

§ 2. Chapter 13 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-1312 to read as follows:

§ 17-1312 Closure of child care centers. Upon issuing an order to close a child care center pursuant to a determination that such center is being operated in a manner that may give rise to an imminent health hazard, or is maintaining 1 or more conditions that constitutes an imminent health hazard, or otherwise presents a risk of endangering the health or safety of children or other persons in such center, the department shall post a copy of such order at the entrance to the premises subject to such order, and shall notify and provide such copy of such order to the parents or other persons who arrive at such center to pick up children attending such center.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

 

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