Establishes a mentoring program within the office of children and family services to assist juveniles released from juvenile facilities in the development of life skills in the city of New York; provides that mentors shall be students from the city university of New York who shall receive money towards tuition or course credit from such university; directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services to promulgate necessary rules and regulations. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides for the care and custody of destitute children. / Sponsor: SAVINO Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Prevents a judge from considering a parent's option to undergo gender reassignment when making a determination in a child custody case, and provides that the judge may not require the parent to refrain from undergoing such gender reassignment as a condition of custody. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Requires a parent or other person legally responsible for a minor and the law guardian appointed pursuant to law to be present during questioning by a peace or police officer. / Sponsor: BRESLIN Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Relates to individuals who refuse to participate in an investigation being conducted by child protective services; grants a twenty-four hour notice to the individual for the meeting or home visit; defines "blatant refusal"; declares that such refusal shall indicate a need for a more thorough investigation and shall be grounds for issuing an immediate warrant to enter such individual's home to investigate the safety and well-being of the child or children; mandates that such immediate warrant occur after one instance of blatant refusal. / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Broadens the scope of child abuse and neglected child to include proof of a positive controlled substance toxicology report on a newborn infant; presence of such controlled substances establishes a rebuttable presumption that the release of the infant to the parent presents an imminent danger to the child's health or life. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Relates to reports of abuse or neglect of children in residential facilities or programs; requires the commissioner of children and family services to give telephone notice and immediately forward a copy of reports which involve suspected physical injury or sexual abuse of a child or the death of a child to the appropriate local law enforcement. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Defines "criminal street gang" and prohibits criminal street gang recruitment of a minor. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Creates the NY state child care facilities finance agency as a public benefit corporation to act with the NYS housing finance agency to provide resources and funds for the construction of child care facilities; provides for its functions, powers and duties; authorizes it to issue bonds and notes and makes the same legal investments; makes administrative provisions. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides that a child shall not be placed in the custody of the office of children and family services at the conclusion of a dispositional hearing unless the court finds that conditional discharge would not be appropriate and that the respondent poses a significant threat to public safety. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY 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: JOHNSON Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Permits certain out-of-court statements by a child less than twelve years old to be admissible in court in cases of sex offenses and where the child is unavailable or unwilling to testify, among other criteria. / Sponsor: SMITH Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Establishes a mentoring program within the office of children and family services to assist juveniles released from juvenile facilities in the development of life skills in the city of New York; provides that mentors shall be students from the city university of New York who shall receive money towards tuition or course credit from such university; directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services to promulgate necessary rules and regulations. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Enacts provisions relating to the reporting of child abuse; delineates what persons are required to report cases of suspected child abuse to law enforcement agencies; any person required to report or any clergy required to review records who willfully fails to do so shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor for the first offense, a class E felony for the second offense and a class D felony for the third offense or any subsequent offense; provides immunity for certain persons who in good faith made such reports to the wrong recipient. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Requires mandatory jail time of no less than thirty days for repeat violators of orders of protection. / Sponsor: ALESI Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides that a child shall not be taken into protective custody based on an allegation that a custodial parent or guardian suffers from Munchausen syndrome by proxy without a family court hearing on such allegations. / Sponsor: JOHNSON Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Relates to the office of children and family services and facilitating the use of alternatives to detention programs. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY 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: ROBACH Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides that certain camps may make inquiries of and be provided with information from the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment to determine if any person who may have contact with children is on file on such register. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides that a great-grandparent may apply to the supreme court for visitation rights with respect to certain minor great-grandchildren where either or both of the parents of such child is or are deceased. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES