Assembly Bill A7633

Signed By Governor
2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to permitting social services officials in an adult protective service investigation access to certain confidential records

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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-A7633 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5470
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §422, Soc Serv L

2011-A7633 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to permitting social services officials in an adult protective service investigation access to certain confidential records under the child abuse and maltreatment registry when such official has reasonable cause to believe that such person may be in need of protective services due to the actions of an individual or individuals that had access to such adult when he or she was a child.

2011-A7633 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7633

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 11, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, PEOPLES-STOKES, SCARBOROUGH -- read once
  and referred to the Committee on Children and Families

AN ACT to amend the social  services  law,  in  relation  to  permitting
  social services officials investigating whether an adult is in need of
  protective services to have access to certain confidential reports

  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 WHO IS INVESTIGATING WHETHER AN ADULT
IS IN NEED OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE  PROVISIONS  OF
SECTION  FOUR  HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER, WHEN SUCH OFFICIAL
HAS REASONABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE SUCH ADULT MAY BE IN NEED OF  PROTECTIVE
SERVICES  DUE  TO  THE  CONDUCT  OF AN INDIVIDUAL OR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD
ACCESS TO SUCH ADULT WHEN SUCH ADULT WAS A CHILD AND THAT  SUCH  REPORTS
AND INFORMATION ARE NEEDED TO FURTHER THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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