A8649 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Enacts the "safe haven baby box act" to provide a defense to endangering the welfare of a child; defines "safe haven baby box" to mean a secure, climate-controlled device installed at a facility staffed twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, including but not limited to hospitals, police stations, fire stations, and emergency medical service facilities.
- Title
- Enacts the "safe haven baby box act"
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Children And Families
- Introduced
- 2025-05-22
- Same as
- S7904
- Law section
- Social Services Law
Sponsors
- Jaime R. Williams Assembly Member, District 59
Heard in committee
- Children and Families NY State Assembly committee
Same as
- S7904 (2025-26 session) NY State bill