Senate Bill S3224

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Authorizes the release of child abuse reports to social services officials

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S3224 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง422, Soc Serv L

2011-S3224 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the release of child abuse reports to social services officials where such records and reports are necessary in order to conduct an adult protective service investigation.

2011-S3224 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S3224 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3224

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  RANZENHOFER, MAZIARZ, DeFRANCISCO, GOLDEN -- read
  twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
  Committee on Children and Families

AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing the
  release of child abuse reports to social services officials

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subparagraphs (y) and (z) of paragraph (A) of subdivision 4
of  section  422 of the social services law, subparagraph (y) as amended
and subparagraph (z) as added by section 1 of part A of chapter  327  of
the  laws  of  2007, are amended and a new subparagraph (aa) is added to
read as follows:
  (y) members of a citizen  review  panel  as  established  pursuant  to
section  three hundred seventy-one-b of this article; provided, however,
members of a citizen review panel shall not disclose to  any  person  or
government official any identifying information which the panel has been
provided  and  shall  not make public other information unless otherwise
authorized by statute; [and]
  (z) an entity with appropriate legal authority  in  another  state  to
license,  certify  or  otherwise approve prospective foster and adoptive
parents where disclosure of information regarding the prospective foster
or adoptive parents and other persons over the age of eighteen  residing
in  the home of such prospective parents is required by paragraph twenty
of subdivision (a) of section six hundred seventy-one of title forty-two
of the United States code[.]; AND
  (AA) A SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICIAL UNDER ARTICLE NINE-B OF  THIS  CHAPTER
WHEN  SUCH OFFICIAL CERTIFIES THAT THE RECORDS AND REPORTS ARE NECESSARY
IN ORDER TO CONDUCT AN ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICE INVESTIGATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01595-02-1

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