New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A08649

Introduced
5/22/25  
Refer
5/22/25  

Caption

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.

Companion Bills

NY S07904

Same As 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.

Previously Filed As

NY S07904

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.

NY A4157

Requires newly constructed police stations, fire stations, and hospitals to provide newborn safety device; allows affirmative defense to prosecution for abandonment if parent leaves child in device.

NY H139

Baby Boxes/Newborn Safety Device

NY SB499

Safe Haven Infant Boxes

NY SB206

Relinquishment Of Infants At Safe Haven Boxes

NY S08701

Enacts the "Baby Food and Infant Formula Safety and Transparency Act"; requires the testing of baby food and infant formula for toxic heavy metals and the disclosure of such test results.

NY A09026

Enacts the "Baby Food and Infant Formula Safety and Transparency Act"; requires the testing of baby food and infant formula for toxic heavy metals and the disclosure of such test results.

NY S08855

Tolls the statute of limitations for endangering the welfare of a child until such child reaches the age of twenty-three.

NY A07984

Tolls the statute of limitations for endangering the welfare of a child until such child reaches the age of twenty-three.

NY S07464

Repeals provisions relating to affirmative defenses to the charge of endangering the welfare of a child.

Similar Bills

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