Authorizes family court judges to transfer certain child support arrears matters to the criminal courts; amends the jurisdiction of the criminal courts. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

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; makes such official misconduct a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides procedures for the care and custody of infants determined to be abandoned; creates process to facilitate freeing abandoned infants for adoption if a parent does not claim custody within statutory period. / Sponsor: Lavine Committee:

Institutes mandatory jail time of a minimum of sixty days if a person is found to have been in willful violation of a support order at least three times. / Sponsor: Crouch Committee:

Provides additional remedies for violations of orders of protection and probation in family offense cases including revocation of a license to possess firearms, mandatory counseling and probation. / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for accumulated child support arrears equivalent to or greater than ten thousand dollars to be punishable as a class E felony. / Sponsor: FLANAGAN Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to notification procedures for the transfer of a child from one foster home to another; permits transfer without prior notice in certain circumstances. / Sponsor: Scarborough Committee:

Authorizes family court judges to transfer certain child support arrears matters to the criminal courts; amends the jurisdiction of the criminal courts. / Sponsor: GIANARIS Committee: JUDICIARY

Prohibits public officials from releasing sealed juvenile police records; makes such official misconduct a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: Perry Committee:

Authorizes the issuance of warrants and orders of protection in persons in need of supervision cases. / Sponsor: Robinson Committee:

Amends provisions of child protective proceedings to prevent the unnecessary removal of children from a custodial parent who is the victim of domestic violence. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides for the establishment of kinship guardianships for kinship foster parent; establishes the guardianship after a hearing and determination upon a petition filed by the kinship foster parent; provides that establishment of such guardianship does not affect or impair the natural parents visitation rights. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Relates to the Monroe county juvenile justice center; establishes a limited secure placement facility for juveniles in Monroe county; authorizes the office of children and family services to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the county of Monroe for such county to establish, operate and maintain a limited secure placement facility and to inspect and certify the Monroe county juvenile justice center limited secure placement facility. / Sponsor: Gantt Committee:

Authorizes visitation by the parent or custodian of child in a proceeding for the commitment of the guardianship and custody of a child on the ground of permanent neglect. / Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO 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. / Sponsor: Gantt Committee:

Authorizes the court to make an order of support in assistance or as a condition of any other order made in a child protective proceeding directing that a person who is liable to pay support pursuant to the provisions of article four of the family court act and who is a party to the proceeding, contribute to the support of the child or the spouse without the need for further proceedings. / Sponsor: Wright Committee:

Provides for the establishment of kinship guardianships for kinship foster parent; establishes the guardianship after a hearing and determination upon a petition filed by the kinship foster parent; provides that establishment of such guardianship does not affect or impair the natural parents visitation rights. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides that family court may not exclude from child protective proceedings (abuse and neglect) under article 10 of the family court act, a child who is the subject of the hearing and who has expressed an interest in attending except upon a finding that attendance by the child would be detrimental to the child's emotional health. / Sponsor: Lopez V Committee:

Modifies the existing exemption from requiring a determination of what constitutes prima facie evidence of neglect where a parent or guardian engages in substance abuse or substantial manifestation of irrationality but is voluntarily and regularly participating in a recognized rehabilitative program so as to require the parent or guardian to have voluntarily participated in and to have successfully completed such a program and to have been verifiably rehabilitated for an uninterrupted period of one year immediately prior to the hearing date, before such exemption applies. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee: