Bill Text: NY S05724 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5724 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits the alleged child victim of a child abuse report from being interviewed in the presence of any other person named in the report.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05724 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05724-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         5724--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 27, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and  Families  --
          recommitted  to  the  Committee on Children and Families in accordance
          with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to interviewing a
          potentially abused child
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 424 of the social
     2  services  law, as amended by chapter 281 of the laws of 2017, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) upon receipt of such report, commence  or  cause  the  appropriate
     5  society  for  the  prevention of cruelty to children to commence, within
     6  twenty-four hours, an appropriate investigation which shall  include  an
     7  evaluation  of  the environment of the child named in the report and any
     8  other children in the same home and a determination of the risk to  such
     9  children if they continue to remain in the existing home environment, as
    10  well as a determination of the nature, extent and cause of any condition
    11  enumerated in such report and the name, age and condition of other chil-
    12  dren  in the home, and, after seeing to the safety of the child or chil-
    13  dren, forthwith notify the subjects of  the  report  and  other  persons
    14  named  in the report in writing of the existence of the report and their
    15  respective rights  pursuant  to  this  title  in  regard  to  amendment.
    16  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, the alleged child victim of
    17  such report shall not be interviewed in the presence of any other person
    18  named in the report;
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09329-02-8