Bill Text: NY S05470 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to permitting social services officials in an adult protective service investigation access to certain confidential records under the child abuse and maltreatment registry when such official has reasonable cause to believe that such person may be in need of protective services due to the actions of an individual or individuals that had access to such adult when he or she was a child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-15 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7633 [S05470 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05470-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5470
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 25, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
       AN ACT to amend the social  services  law,  in  relation  to  permitting
         social services officials investigating whether an adult is in need of
         protective services to have access to certain confidential reports
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraphs (y) and (z) of paragraph (A) of subdivision 4
    2  of section 422 of the social services law, subparagraph (y)  as  amended
    3  and  subparagraph  (z) as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 327 of
    4  the laws of 2007, are amended and a new subparagraph (aa)  is  added  to
    5  read as follows:
    6    (y)  members  of  a  citizen  review  panel as established pursuant to
    7  section three hundred seventy-one-b of this article; provided,  however,
    8  members  of  a  citizen review panel shall not disclose to any person or
    9  government official any identifying information which the panel has been
   10  provided and shall not make public other  information  unless  otherwise
   11  authorized by statute; [and]
   12    (z)  an  entity  with  appropriate legal authority in another state to
   13  license, certify or otherwise approve prospective  foster  and  adoptive
   14  parents where disclosure of information regarding the prospective foster
   15  or  adoptive parents and other persons over the age of eighteen residing
   16  in the home of such prospective parents is required by paragraph  twenty
   17  of subdivision (a) of section six hundred seventy-one of title forty-two
   18  of the United States code[.]; AND
   19    (AA)  A SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICIAL WHO IS INVESTIGATING WHETHER AN ADULT
   20  IS IN NEED OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE  PROVISIONS  OF
   21  SECTION  FOUR  HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER, WHEN SUCH OFFICIAL
   22  HAS REASONABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE SUCH ADULT MAY BE IN NEED OF  PROTECTIVE
   23  SERVICES  DUE  TO  THE  CONDUCT  OF AN INDIVIDUAL OR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD
   24  ACCESS TO SUCH ADULT WHEN SUCH ADULT WAS A CHILD AND THAT  SUCH  REPORTS
   25  AND INFORMATION ARE NEEDED TO FURTHER THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11521-01-1