Bill Text: NY A00083 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the office of children and family services to track and report elder abuse and to issue a biennial report to the governor and legislature and office for the aging regarding the incidence of elder abuse in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - print number 83a [A00083 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00083-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          83--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. DINOWITZ, BARRETT -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Aging -- recommitted to the  Committee  on  Aging  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the tracking and
          reporting  of  elder  abuse;  and  providing  for  the  repeal of such
          provisions upon the expiration thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  6,  7  and  8  of section 473 of the social
     2  services law are renumbered subdivisions 7, 8 and 9 and a  new  subdivi-
     3  sion 6 is added to read as follows:
     4    6.  (a)  The  office  of  children  and  family  services (hereinafter
     5  referred to in this section as the "office") shall, in cooperation  with
     6  the office for the aging, collect data on elder abuse possessed by state
     7  and  local agencies, including but not limited to the division of crimi-
     8  nal justice  services,  the  department  of  law,  the  office  for  the
     9  prevention  of  domestic  violence and the department of health, for the
    10  purpose of identifying the incidence of elder abuse among  the  elderly.
    11  The  office  shall  create  interagency reporting systems that contain a
    12  uniform set of standards to collect and analyze such data.  Furthermore,
    13  the  office, in consultation with the office for the aging, shall estab-
    14  lish a definition for elder abuse and the  minimum  age  of  an  elderly
    15  person,  that enables the office to accurately compare similar data from
    16  different state and local agencies.  For the purposes of  this  subdivi-
    17  sion, the office and the office for the aging, in establishing the defi-
    18  nition of elder abuse, may incorporate the types of physical, sexual and
    19  emotional  abuse, active and passive neglect, and financial exploitation
    20  defined in subdivision seven of this section.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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