Bill Text: NY A01955 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to children and families [A01955 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A01955-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1955 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to questioning of a minor by peace or police officers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 305.2 of the family court act, as 2 added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows: 3 3. If an officer takes such child into custody or if a child is deliv- 4 ered to [him] an officer under section 305.1, [he] such officer shall 5 immediately notify the following persons that the child has been taken 6 into custody: (a) the parent, or other person legally responsible for 7 the child's care, or if such legally responsible person is unavailable 8 the person with whom the child resides, [that the child has been taken9into custody] and (b) if known by the officer, the attorney for the 10 child, if one has been appointed pursuant to section two hundred forty- 11 nine of this chapter for any pending or previous court proceeding. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05248-01-5
