Bill Text: NY A07700 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
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
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--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, GUNTHER, SEPULVEDA, 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 commit- tee 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 and that he or she has been named 8 in that report as a person with knowledge of such incident. 9 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 491 of the social 10 services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws 11 of 2012, is amended to read as follows: 12 (b) [A] Except as provided in paragraph (b-1) of subdivision one of 13 this section , a mandated reporter who knowingly and willfully fails to 14 report a case of suspected abuse or neglect to the vulnerable persons' 15 central register may be subject to termination, subject to any applica- 16 ble collective bargaining agreement. Any person or official required by 17 this article to report a case of suspected abuse or neglect to the 18 vulnerable persons' central register who knowingly and willfully fails 19 to do so shall be civilly liable for the damages proximately caused by 20 such failure. 21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 22 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11569-02-7