Senate Bill S3935

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Directs persons required to report child abuse or maltreatment in their professional or official capacity to report parents who have been convicted of abusing a child or had their parental rights terminated

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee


  • 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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2015-S3935 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §413, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S7212

2015-S3935 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs persons required to report child abuse or maltreatment in their professional or official capacity to report parents who have been convicted of abusing a child or had their parental rights terminated and have given birth to or fathered another child.

2015-S3935 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S3935 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  3935

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 23, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- 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  reports  of
  suspected child abuse or maltreatment by certain officials and persons

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social
services law, as separately amended by chapters 126 and 205 of the  laws
of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
  (a)  The  following  persons  and  officials are required to report or
cause a report to be made in accordance with this title when  they  have
reasonable  cause  to  suspect  that a child coming before them in their
professional or official capacity is an abused or maltreated  child,  or
when  they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused or
maltreated child where the parent, guardian, custodian or  other  person
legally  responsible  for  such child comes before them in their profes-
sional or official capacity and states from  personal  knowledge  facts,
conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the child an
abused  or  maltreated  child,  OR  WHEN  THEY  HAVE REASONABLE CAUSE TO
BELIEVE THAT A PARENT COMING BEFORE THEM IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL OR  OFFI-
CIAL  CAPACITY  HAS  BEEN  CONVICTED OF A CRIME RELATED TO PHYSICALLY OR
SEXUALLY ABUSING A CHILD AND SUCH PARENT HAS SUBSEQUENTLY GIVEN BIRTH TO
OR FATHERED A CHILD, OR HAS REASONABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT A COURT HAS
PREVIOUSLY TERMINATED SUCH PARENT'S RIGHTS TO A CHILD FOR ANY CAUSE  AND
SUCH  PARENT  HAS  SUBSEQUENTLY  GIVEN BIRTH TO OR FATHERED A CHILD: any
physician; registered physician assistant;  surgeon;  medical  examiner;
coroner;  dentist;  dental hygienist; osteopath; optometrist; chiroprac-
tor;  podiatrist;  resident;  intern;  psychologist;  registered  nurse;
social  worker;  emergency  medical  technician;  licensed creative arts
therapist; licensed  marriage  and  family  therapist;  licensed  mental
health  counselor;  licensed  psychoanalyst;  licensed behavior analyst;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07687-01-5
              

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