Senate Bill S789

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to findings in child abuse or neglect proceedings

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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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2025-S789 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4045
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §1051, Fam Ct Act (as proposed in S.9745 & A.7348)

2025-S789 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to findings in child abuse or neglect proceedings.

2025-S789 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S789 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    789
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to findings  in  child
   abuse or neglect proceedings in family court

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision (f) of section 1051 of
 the family court act, as added by chapter 430 of the laws  of  1994,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   Prior  to  accepting  an  admission  to  an allegation or permitting a
 respondent to consent to a finding of neglect or abuse, the court  shall
 inform  the  respondent that such an admission or consent will result in
 the court making a fact-finding order of neglect or abuse, as  the  case
 may  be,  and  shall  further inform the respondent IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE
 FOLLOWING TERMS of the potential consequences of such  order,  including
 but not limited to the following:
   §  2. Paragraph (iii) of subdivision (f) of section 1051 of the family
 court act, as amended by a chapter of the  laws  of  2024  amending  the
 family court act relating to notices given to respondents in child abuse
 and  neglect  proceedings  in  family  court, as proposed in legislative
 bills numbers S. 9745 and A. 7348, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii) that any report made to the  state  central  register  of  child
 abuse and maltreatment of allegations on which the court makes a finding
 of  abuse  or  neglect  will  remain indicated in the register until ten
 years after the eighteenth birthday of the youngest child named in  such
 report unless such finding is vacated or dismissed, and that:
   (A)  the  respondent  will be unable to amend such report in the state
 central register; AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02699-01-5
 S. 789                              2
              

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