Assembly Bill A10236

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Establishes citizen review panel for the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A10236 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6262
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §371-b, Soc Serv L

2009-A10236 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes citizen review panel for the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester.

2009-A10236 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10236 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10236

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 11, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishment of
  citizen review panels for the counties of Nassau and Suffolk and Rock-
  land and Westchester

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 371-b of the social services law,
as added by chapter 136 of the laws of  1999,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  There  shall  be  established at least [three] FOUR citizen review
panels. At least one panel shall be established  for  the  city  of  New
York,  AT  LEAST  ONE  PANEL  SHALL  BE  ESTABLISHED FOR THE COUNTIES OF
NASSAU, SUFFOLK, ROCKLAND AND WESTCHESTER and at least two panels  shall
be   established  for  social  services  districts  or  combinations  of
districts outside of the city of New York. The panel in the city of  New
York  shall create one subcommittee for each borough for the purposes of
evaluating the extent  to  which  the  state  and  the  social  services
district  are discharging their child protection responsibilities within
that particular borough, in  accordance  with  [subsection]  SUBDIVISION
three of this section.  The office of children and family services shall
make  available  resources  to  support the needs of each citizen review
panel.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14928-03-9

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