Bill Text: NY A07700 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires that mandated reporters who are multiple reporters who have direct knowledge of the same reportable incident shall be required to report such incident unless they know the report has already been made by another mandated reporter.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-05 - REFERRED TO RULES [A07700 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07700-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7700--B 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, GUNTHER, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the duty of mandated reporters to report an incident when there are multiple reporters with direct knowledge of such incident The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 491 of the social services law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (b-1) to read as follows: 3 (b-1) Where multiple reporters have direct knowledge of the same 4 reportable incident or have reasonable cause to suspect such incident 5 has occurred, each mandated reporter is required to report such inci- 6 dent, unless he or she reasonably believes that the report has already 7 been made by another mandated reporter. 8 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 491 of the social 9 services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws 10 of 2012, is amended to read as follows: 11 (b) [A] Except as provided in paragraph (b-1) of subdivision one of 12 this section , a mandated reporter who knowingly and willfully fails to 13 report a case of suspected abuse or neglect to the vulnerable persons' 14 central register may be subject to termination, subject to any applica- 15 ble collective bargaining agreement. Any person or official required by 16 this article to report a case of suspected abuse or neglect to the 17 vulnerable persons' central register who knowingly and willfully fails 18 to do so shall be civilly liable for the damages proximately caused by 19 such failure. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11569-04-8