Bill Text: NY S00399 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Improves child welfare investigations by improving the central register; requires calls made to the central register be recorded and such recording made part of any report of suspected child abuse or neglect.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-08 - PRINT NUMBER 399A [S00399 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00399-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         399--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, GOLDEN, KENNEDY, LATIMER, PANEPINTO, YOUNG
          -- 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 technological
          improvements to the central register
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 422 of the social services law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
     3    (a-1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,  no  later
     4  than  January  first,  two thousand eighteen, the office of children and
     5  family services as part of the central register shall:
     6    (i) record all voice calls made to the central register and shall make
     7  such recording a part of any report of suspected child abuse or neglect;
     8    (ii) immediately transmit such voice recording as part of  the  record
     9  of  an  allegation  of  child abuse and neglect to the appropriate local
    10  child protective services for investigation; and
    11    (iii) maintain recordings of any call that did not constitute a report
    12  of child abuse or neglect for at least two years and any call  that  did
    13  constitute a report of child abuse or neglect for at least five years.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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