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                                   8677
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 29, 2022
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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  child  advocacy
   centers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 424-a of the social services  law,
 as  amended by section 14-a of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019,
 is amended to read as follows:
   3. For purposes of this section,  the  term  "provider"  or  "provider
 agency"  shall  mean:  an  authorized agency; the office of children and
 family services; A PRIVATE, NONPROFIT INCORPORATED AGENCY THAT MEETS THE
 STATE OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES PROGRAM STANDARDS FOR CHILD
 ADVOCACY CENTERS; juvenile detention facilities subject to  the  certif-
 ication  of  the office of children and family services; programs estab-
 lished pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law; non-residen-
 tial or residential programs or facilities licensed or operated  by  the
 office  of  mental  health  or  the office for people with developmental
 disabilities except family care homes;  including  head  start  programs
 which are funded pursuant to title V of the federal economic opportunity
 act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-four,  as  amended; early intervention
 service established pursuant to section twenty-five hundred forty of the
 public health law; preschool services established  pursuant  to  section
 forty-four  hundred  ten  of  the  education  law;  special  act  school
 districts as enumerated in chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of
 nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  as  amended;  programs  and  facilities
 licensed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services; resi-
 dential schools which are operated, supervised or approved by the educa-
 tion  department;  health  homes,  or  any  subcontractor of such health
 homes, who contracts with or is approved or otherwise authorized by  the
 department  of  health  to  provide  health  home  services to all those
 enrolled pursuant to  a  diagnosis  of  a  developmental  disability  as
 defined  in subdivision twenty-two of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene
 law and enrollees who are under twenty-one years of  age  under  section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 three  hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter, or any entity that provides
 home and community based services to enrollees who are under  twenty-one
 years  of  age  under a demonstration program pursuant to section eleven
 hundred  fifteen  of  the  federal  social security act; publicly-funded
 emergency shelters for families with children,  provided,  however,  for
 purposes  of  this  section,  when  the provider or provider agency is a
 publicly-funded emergency shelter for families with children,  then  all
 references in this section to the "potential for regular and substantial
 contact with individuals who are cared for by the agency" shall mean the
 potential  for  regular  and  substantial  contact with children who are
 served by such shelter; and any other facility or  provider  agency,  as
 defined in subdivision four of section four hundred eighty-eight of this
 chapter,  in  regard  to the employment of staff, or use of providers of
 goods and services and staff of such providers, consultants, interns and
 volunteers.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.