Bill Text: NY A04552 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4552 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the alleged child victim of a child abuse report from being interviewed in the presence of any other person named in the report.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-15 - enacting clause stricken [A04552 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04552-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4552
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. KEARNS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH,
          FRIEND, GIGLIO, HOOPER, JEAN-PIERRE, MONTESANO, RA, RAIA,  SIMANOWITZ,
          WOERNER  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on Children and
          Families
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  interviewing  a
          potentially abused child
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 424 of the social
     2  services law, as amended by chapter 602 of the laws of 2008, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a)  upon  receipt  of  such report, commence or cause the appropriate
     5  society for the prevention of cruelty to children  to  commence,  within
     6  twenty-four  hours,  an appropriate investigation which shall include an
     7  evaluation of the environment of the child named in the report  and  any
     8  other  children in the same home and a determination of the risk to such
     9  children if they continue to remain in the existing home environment, as
    10  well as a determination of the nature, extent and cause of any condition
    11  enumerated in such report and the name, age and condition of other chil-
    12  dren in the home, and, after seeing to the safety of the child or  chil-
    13  dren,  forthwith  notify  the  subjects  of the report and other persons
    14  named in the report in writing of the existence of the report and  their
    15  respective  rights  pursuant  to  this  title  in  regard  to amendment.
    16  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the alleged child victim  of
    17  such report shall not be interviewed in the presence of any other person
    18  named in the report.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09329-01-7