Assembly Bill A4558

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of "abused child"

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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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2017-A4558 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S680
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §371, Soc Serv L; amd §1012, Fam Ct Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8383, S6327
2015-2016: A4139, S3122

2017-A4558 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the definition of "abused child".

2017-A4558 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4558
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. KEARNS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH,
   HOOPER, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Children
   and Families
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the social services law and the family court act, in
   relation to the definition of "abused child"

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 4-b of section 371 of the social services law,
 as added by chapter 782 of the laws of 1971, the  opening  paragraph  as
 amended  by  chapter  518  of  the  laws  of 1977, is amended to read as
 follows:
   4-b. "Abused child" means a child less  than  eighteen  years  of  age
 whose parent or other person legally responsible for his care
   (i) inflicts or allows to be inflicted upon such child physical injury
 by  other  than  accidental  means which causes or creates a substantial
 risk of death, or serious or  protracted  disfigurement,  or  protracted
 impairment of physical or emotional health or protracted loss or impair-
 ment  of the function of any bodily organ, OR THE IMPAIRMENT OF PHYSICAL
 CONDITION OR SUBSTANTIAL PAIN, or
   (ii) creates or allows to be created a substantial  risk  of  physical
 injury to such child by other than accidental means which would be like-
 ly  to cause death or serious or protracted disfigurement, or protracted
 impairment of physical or emotional health or protracted loss or impair-
 ment of the function of any bodily organ, OR THE IMPAIRMENT OF  PHYSICAL
 CONDITION OR SUBSTANTIAL PAIN, or
   (iii)  commits,  or  allows  to  be  committed, an act of sexual abuse
 against such child as defined in the penal law[.], OR
   (IV) ALLOWS, PERMITS OR ENCOURAGES SUCH CHILD TO  ENGAGE  IN  ANY  ACT
 DESCRIBED IN SECTIONS 230.25, 230.30 AND 230.32 OF THE PENAL LAW, OR
   (V)  COMMITS  ANY OF THE ACTS DESCRIBED IN SECTIONS 255.25, 255.26 AND
 255.27 OF THE PENAL LAW, OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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