Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center.

Sponsor: Paulin Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Provides clarification to determine the expiration date of an order of protection issued in relation to a family offense.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Establishes the temporary state commission on intimate partner violence, within the office of mental health, to study, report on and make recommendations on the prevalence, causes, effects, risks and costs of such violence.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Relates to the provision of information on post-adoption services to adoptive services.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Establishes the office of the independent juvenile justice advocate to identify and examine systemic issues regarding the quality of care provided to youth in residential programs and the access to needed services.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Relates to conditional surrenders of parental rights in family court and surrogate's court.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Directs the division of criminal justice services to provide criminal background checks to nonprofit mentoring programs free of charge.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Delays administrative fair hearings of child abuse or maltreatment until family court procedings have been concluded. Delays administrative fair hearings of child abuse or maltreatment until family court procedings have been concluded.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Allows a person acting as de facto parent to apply to the supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus to have a minor child brought before the court.

Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Creates a domestic abuse hotline for teens; requires all high schools within the state to conduct an assembly on domestic abuse.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Provides that the issue of military deployment shall not be considered as a factor in the awarding of custody in marital actions where a suitable child care plan is presented.

Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES -

Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Provides that prior to a dispositional hearing the judge shall order a probation investigation and a diagnostic assessment of a juvenile delinquent whom the court reasonably finds, on the record, to have a demonstrable need for a remediation of a discernible handicapping condition; allows judges to refer custody through various state agencies for placement into programs under protocol and funding provisions currently in existence. Provides that prior to a dispositional hearing the judge shall order a probation investigation and a diagnostic assessment of a juvenile delinquent whom the court reasonably finds, on the record, to have a demonstrable need for a remediation of a discernible handicapping condition; allows judges to refer custody through various state agencies for placement into programs under protocol and funding provisions currently in existence.

Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Prohibits public officials from releasing sealed juvenile police records; adds new section to family court act; makes such official misconduct a class A misdemeanor. Prohibits public officials from releasing sealed juvenile police records; adds new section to family court act; makes such official misconduct a class A misdemeanor.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Includes pupils from school districts within a city having a population of one million or more within the definition of child for the purposes of their protection from abuse and maltreatment in educational settings.

Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Provides that AMBER alerts shall be provided on all state-owned wireless communication devices.

Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Establishes the presumption in matrimonial proceedings for awarding shared parenting of minor children in the absence of an allegation that shared parenting would be detrimental to the best interests of the child; establishes an order of preference in awarding custody; defines shared parenting and parenting plan.

Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Establishes the Peer Advocacy and Mentoring program; provides peer support, advocacy and mentoring for youth in residential care.

Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - An act to amend the executive law and the county law, in relation to alternative to detention pr ograms for court-involved children

Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Provides for reimbursement for alternatives to detention and residential placement programs for youth by the office of children and family services. Provides for reimbursement for alternatives to detention and residential placement programs for youth by the office of children and family services.