STATE OF NEW YORK
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10635
IN ASSEMBLY
July 6, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jean-Pierre)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to citizen review
panels
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 371-b of the social services law,
2 as added by chapter 136 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. There shall be established at least [three] one citizen review
5 [panels. At least one panel shall be established for the city of New
6 York and at least two panels shall be established for social services
7 districts or combinations of districts outside of the city of New York]
8 panel in each region of the state established in accordance with section
9 two hundred thirty of the economic development law. The panel in the
10 city of New York shall create one subcommittee for each borough for the
11 purposes of evaluating the extent to which the state and the social
12 services district are discharging their child protection responsibil-
13 ities within that particular borough, in accordance with subsection
14 three of this section. The office of children and family services shall
15 make available resources to support the needs of each citizen review
16 panel.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13488-01-1