Bill Text: NY A10671 | 2021-2022 | 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 - Dead) 2022-08-12 - referred to children and families [A10671 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10671-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10671

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 12, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
          thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Fami-
          lies

        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 section 14-a of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of  2019,
     3  is amended to read as 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;  juvenile  detention facilities subject to the certif-
     7  ication of the office of children and family services;  programs  estab-
     8  lished  pursuant  to  article nineteen-H of the executive law; organiza-
     9  tions and programs that provide community based services to  individuals
    10  under twenty-one years of age who are under the care or oversight of any
    11  of  the aforementioned provider agencies when the services provided have
    12  potential for regular and  substantial  contact  with  such  individuals
    13  under  twenty-one; non-residential or residential programs or facilities
    14  licensed or operated by the office of mental health or  the  office  for
    15  people with developmental disabilities except family care homes; includ-
    16  ing  head  start  programs  which  are funded pursuant to title V of the
    17  federal economic opportunity act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-four,  as
    18  amended;  early  intervention  service  established  pursuant to section
    19  twenty-five hundred forty of the public health law;  preschool  services
    20  established  pursuant to section forty-four hundred ten of the education
    21  law; special act school districts as enumerated in chapter five  hundred
    22  sixty-six  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred sixty-seven, as amended;
    23  programs and  facilities  licensed  by  the  office  of  alcoholism  and
    24  substance abuse services; residential schools which are operated, super-
    25  vised  or  approved  by  the  education department; health homes, or any
    26  subcontractor of such health homes, who contracts with or is approved or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15357-03-2
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     1  otherwise authorized by the department of health to provide health  home
     2  services  to  all  those  enrolled pursuant to a diagnosis of a develop-
     3  mental disability as defined in subdivision twenty-two of  section  1.03
     4  of  the  mental hygiene law and enrollees who are under twenty-one years
     5  of age under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter, or  any
     6  entity  that provides home and community based services to enrollees who
     7  are under twenty-one years of age under a demonstration program pursuant
     8  to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal  social  security  act;
     9  publicly-funded emergency shelters for families with children, provided,
    10  however,  for  purposes  of  this section, when the provider or provider
    11  agency is a publicly-funded emergency shelter for  families  with  chil-
    12  dren,  then all references in this section to the "potential for regular
    13  and substantial contact with individuals who are cared for by the  agen-
    14  cy"  shall  mean  the potential for regular and substantial contact with
    15  children who are served by such  shelter;  and  any  other  facility  or
    16  provider  agency, as defined in subdivision four of section four hundred
    17  eighty-eight of this chapter, in regard to the employment of  staff,  or
    18  use  of  providers  of  goods  and services and staff of such providers,
    19  consultants, interns and volunteers.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.