Bill Text: NY A02152 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes organizations and programs that provide community based services to individuals under twenty-one in the definition of provider or provider agency regarding the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A02152 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02152-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2152

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  including
          certain  programs  and  facilities  in  the  definition of provider or
          provider agency

          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 424-a of the social services law,
     2  as amended by chapter 611 of the laws of 2022, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  For  purposes  of  this  section, the term "provider" or "provider
     5  agency" shall mean: an authorized agency; the  office  of  children  and
     6  family services; a private, nonprofit incorporated agency that meets the
     7  state office of children and family services program standards for child
     8  advocacy  centers;  juvenile detention facilities subject to the certif-
     9  ication of the office of children and family services;  programs  estab-
    10  lished  pursuant  to  article nineteen-H of the executive law; organiza-
    11  tions and programs that provide community based services to  individuals
    12  under twenty-one years of age who are under the care or oversight of any
    13  of  the aforementioned provider agencies when the services provided have
    14  potential  for  regular and   substantial  contact with such individuals
    15  under twenty-one; non-residential or residential programs or  facilities
    16  licensed  or  operated  by the office of mental health or the office for
    17  people with developmental disabilities except family care homes; includ-
    18  ing head start programs which are funded pursuant  to  title  V  of  the
    19  federal  economic  opportunity  act  of  nineteen hundred sixty-four, as
    20  amended; early intervention  service  established  pursuant  to  section
    21  twenty-five  hundred  forty of the public health law; preschool services
    22  established pursuant to section forty-four hundred ten of the  education
    23  law;  special act school districts as enumerated in chapter five hundred
    24  sixty-six of the laws  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  as  amended;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05852-01-3
        A. 2152                             2

     1  programs  and  facilities  licensed  by  the  office  of  alcoholism and
     2  substance abuse services; residential schools which are operated, super-
     3  vised or approved by the education  department;  health  homes,  or  any
     4  subcontractor of such health homes, who contracts with or is approved or
     5  otherwise  authorized by the department of health to provide health home
     6  services to all those enrolled pursuant to a  diagnosis  of  a  develop-
     7  mental  disability  as defined in subdivision twenty-two of section 1.03
     8  of the mental hygiene law and enrollees who are under  twenty-one  years
     9  of  age under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter, or any
    10  entity that provides home and community based services to enrollees  who
    11  are under twenty-one years of age under a demonstration program pursuant
    12  to  section  eleven  hundred fifteen of the federal social security act;
    13  publicly-funded emergency shelters for families with children, provided,
    14  however, for purposes of this section, when  the  provider  or  provider
    15  agency  is  a  publicly-funded emergency shelter for families with chil-
    16  dren, then all references in this section to the "potential for  regular
    17  and  substantial contact with individuals who are cared for by the agen-
    18  cy" shall mean the potential for regular and  substantial  contact  with
    19  children  who  are  served  by  such  shelter; and any other facility or
    20  provider agency, as defined in subdivision four of section four  hundred
    21  eighty-eight  of  this chapter, in regard to the employment of staff, or
    22  use of providers of goods and services  and  staff  of  such  providers,
    23  consultants, interns and volunteers.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.