Bill Text: NY S07042 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7042 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Improves child welfare investigations by improving the central register - requiring calls made to the central register be recorded and such recording made part of any report of suspected child abuse or neglect.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-21 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S07042 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07042-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7042
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 21, 2014
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       Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  technological
         improvements to the central register
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 422 of the social services law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
    3    (A-1)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, NO LATER
    4  THAN JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN, THE  OFFICE  OF  CHILDREN  AND
    5  FAMILIES SERVICES AS PART OF THE CENTRAL REGISTER SHALL:
    6    (I) RECORD ALL VOICE CALLS MADE TO THE CENTRAL REGISTER AND SHALL MAKE
    7  SUCH RECORDING A PART OF ANY REPORT OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT;
    8    (II)  IMMEDIATELY  TRANSMIT SUCH VOICE RECORDING AS PART OF THE RECORD
    9  OF AN ALLEGATION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT  TO  THE  APPROPRIATE  LOCAL
   10  CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR INVESTIGATION; AND
   11    (III) MAINTAIN RECORDINGS OF ANY CALL THAT DID NOT CONSTITUTE A REPORT
   12  OF  CHILD  ABUSE OR NEGLECT FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS AND ANY CALL THAT DID
   13  CONSTITUTE A REPORT OF CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14784-02-4