Makes provisions relating to the investigation of child abuse and maltreatment in foster family homes; authorizes the local legislative body of the city of New York to receive information with regard to cases of child abuse in agencies operated under the jurisdiction of the city of New York. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Relates to establishing the crime of sexual abuse of authority, pertaining to sexual conduct between a teacher and a student. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CODES

Provides for the appointment of a special prosecutor for medical care fraud to investigate and prosecute fraud, waste and abuse in the health care industry to serve for a term of 10 years; provides authority to receive complaints and investigate; provides for toll free number to receive complaints and immunity from liability for persons making complaints; provides for an annual report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly and attorney general. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: FINANCE

Prohibits the state, its political subdivisions, public authorities, and employees and agents thereof from compelling domestic abuse victims to contact their abusers, directly or indirectly for any reason whatsoever. / Sponsor: Wright (MS) Committee:

Includes aggravated harassment, sexual misconduct, forcible touching, sexual abuse, stalking, criminal mischief, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, and strangulation within the criminal offenses which may constitute domestic violence for the purposes of domestic violence prevention; and includes unrelated persons in an "intimate relationship" within the definition of "family or household members" for purposes of domestic violence prevention. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee:

Includes aggravated harassment, sexual misconduct, forcible touching, sexual abuse, stalking, criminal mischief, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, and strangulation within the criminal offenses which may constitute domestic violence for the purposes of domestic violence prevention; and includes unrelated persons in an "intimate relationship" within the definition of "family or household members" for purposes of domestic violence prevention. / Sponsor: Weinstein Committee:

Sponsor: Markey Committee: CALENDAR

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: Mayersohn (MS) Committee:

Creates rebuttable presumption in child protective proceedings under the family court act that proof of the abuse or neglect of one child is evidence of the abuse or neglect of any other child who is the legal responsibility of the parent or guardian. / Sponsor: Mayersohn (MS) Committee:

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: Mayersohn (MS) Committee:

Enacts "Nixzmary Brown's Law" to establish the class A-I felony of aggravated murder of a child for which the sentence shall be life imprisonment without parole; aggravated murder of a child shall include the intentional killing of a person under 14 while in the course of committing rape, criminal sexual act, aggravated sexual abuse or incest against such child, or the depraved indifferent or intentional killing of a person under 14 while being legally responsible for the care of such child; makes technical corrections relating to the offense of aggravated murder; repeals provisions of murder in the second degree which mirror certain provisions of aggravated murder of a child; treats the offenses of aggravated murder and aggravated murder of a child in a manner similar to murder in the first degree. / Sponsor: Mayersohn (MS) Committee:

Relates to the licensing of acupuncturists and the practice of the profession of acupuncture; further establishes acupuncturists as mandatory reporters of suspected cases of child abuse and maltreatment. / Sponsor: Meng (MS) Committee:

Relates to medicaid management; authorizes the commissioner of health and the department of health to report to the legislature and for the department to develop outcome results-based objectives for medicaid service and administrative contracts to promote efficiency and prevent waste and abuse. / Sponsor: Destito Committee:

Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: Lupardo Committee: CALENDAR

Sponsor: SALAND Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: Molinaro Committee: CALENDAR

Sponsor: KENNEDY Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: VALESKY Committee: FINANCE

Requires directors of children's overnight, summer day and traveling summer day camps to report suspected cases of child abuse or maltreatment. / Sponsor: Englebright (MS) Committee: