Bill Text: NY S08894 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - PRINT NUMBER 8894A [S08894 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08894-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8894--A

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 27, 2022
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and  Families  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 8894--A                          2

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