A federal bill that would ban swimming pools at residential day cares is set to be introduced this week, after a 20-month-old child drowned at a Bronx day care early last month.

Congressman Ritchie Torres on Tuesday announced “River’s Law,” which would also require door and window alarms. The legislation is named after River Wilson, who drowned in the backyard at Ana's Butterfly Garden Family Group, a state-licensed day care center on Story Avenue in the Bronx.

“ River and her family have been catastrophically failed … by a broken system of residential day care,” Torres said at an announcement of the legislation Monday, standing with the family in front of photos of the baby. “ River's death is a reminder, a tragic reminder that residential day care centers with swimming pools are dang

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