Bill Text: NY S07215 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the issuance of an order of protection in a child protective proceeding against a parent of a child when such parent is found to have severely abused another child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-03 - referred to children and families [S07215 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07215-Introduced.html

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                                      May 6, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
       AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation  to  the  issuance  of
         orders of protection in child protective proceedings
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1056 of the family court  act,  as
    2  added by chapter 622 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    3    4.  The  court  may  enter an order of protection independently of any
    4  other order made under this part, against a person who [was a member  of
    5  the  child's  household  or  a  person legally responsible as defined in
    6  section one thousand twelve of this chapter, and  who  is  no  longer  a
    7  member  of  such household at the time of the disposition and who is not
    8  related by blood or marriage to the child or a  member  of  the  child's
    9  household]  IS  NOT THE CHILD'S BIOLOGICAL PARENT OR ADOPTIVE PARENT, OR
   10  AGAINST A CHILD'S BIOLOGICAL OR ADOPTIVE PARENT WHO HAS  BEEN  FOUND  TO
   11  HAVE  SEVERELY ABUSED ANY CHILD. An order of protection entered pursuant
   12  to this subdivision may be for any period of  time  up  to  the  child's
   13  eighteenth  birthday  and upon such conditions as the court deems neces-
   14  sary and proper to protect the health and safety of the  child  and  the
   15  child's caretaker.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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