Bill Text: NY S09189 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends the amount of time before reports to the statewide central register regarding child abuse and maltreatment can be expunged from ten years to fifteen years after the eighteenth birthday of the youngest child named in the report.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S09189 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S09189-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9189 IN SENATE May 12, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- 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 extending the amount of time before certain reports to the statewide central regis- ter regarding abuse and maltreatment are expunged The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 422 of the social services law, as 2 amended by chapter 92 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 6. In all other cases, the record of the report to the statewide 5 central register shall be expunged [ten] fifteen years after the eigh- 6 teenth birthday of the youngest child named in the report. In the case 7 of a child in residential care the record of the report to the statewide 8 central register shall be expunged [ten] fifteen years after the 9 reported child's eighteenth birthday. In any case and at any time, the 10 commissioner of the office of children and family services may amend any 11 record upon good cause shown and notice to the subjects of the report 12 and other persons named in the report. Provided however, any report 13 indicated for maltreatment based solely on the purchase, possession or 14 consumption of cannabis, without a showing that the child's physical, 15 mental or emotional condition was impaired or was in imminent danger of 16 becoming impaired in accordance with the definition of child maltreat- 17 ment as provided for in section four hundred twelve of this title is 18 established by a fair preponderance of the evidence shall immediately be 19 sealed upon a request pursuant to subdivision eight of this section or 20 section four hundred twenty-four-a of this title. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14258-02-2