Senate Bill S8894A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Includes certain programs and facilities in the definition of provider or provider agency

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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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2021-S8894 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10671
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §424-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5387, A2152

2021-S8894 - Summary

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.

2021-S8894 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8894 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8894
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 27, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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  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:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 424-a of the social services law,
 as amended by section 14-a of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of  2019,
 is amended to read as follows:
   3.  For  purposes  of  this  section, the term "provider" or "provider
 agency" shall mean: an authorized agency; the  office  of  children  and
 family  services;  juvenile  detention facilities subject to the certif-
 ication of the office of children and family services;  programs  estab-
 lished pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law; PROGRAMS AND
 FACILITIES  LICENSED  UNDER  NEW YORK STATE TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO CHIL-
 DREN; non-residential or residential programs or facilities licensed  or
 operated  by  the  office of mental health or the office for people with
 developmental disabilities except  family  care  homes;  including  head
 start  programs  which  are  funded  pursuant  to title V of the federal
 economic opportunity act of nineteen  hundred  sixty-four,  as  amended;
 early  intervention  service established pursuant to section twenty-five
 hundred forty of the public health law; preschool  services  established
 pursuant to section forty-four hundred ten of the education law; special
 act  school districts as enumerated in chapter five hundred sixty-six of
 the laws of nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  as  amended;  programs  and
 facilities  licensed  by  the  office  of alcoholism and substance abuse
 services; residential schools which are operated, supervised or approved
 by the education department; health homes, or any subcontractor of  such
 health  homes, who contracts with or is approved or otherwise authorized
 by the department of health to provide health home services to all those
 enrolled pursuant to  a  diagnosis  of  a  developmental  disability  as
 defined  in subdivision twenty-two of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene
 law and enrollees who are under twenty-one years of  age  under  section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2021-S8894A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10671
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §424-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5387, A2152

2021-S8894A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2021-S8894A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8894A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8894--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 27, 2022
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 424-a of the social services law,
 as amended by section 14-a of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of  2019,
 is amended to read as follows:
   3.  For  purposes  of  this  section, the term "provider" or "provider
 agency" shall mean: an authorized agency; the  office  of  children  and
 family  services;  juvenile  detention facilities subject to the certif-
 ication of the office of children and family services;  programs  estab-
 lished  pursuant  to  article nineteen-H of the executive law; ORGANIZA-
 TIONS AND PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES TO  INDIVIDUALS
 UNDER TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE WHO ARE UNDER THE CARE OR OVERSIGHT OF ANY
 OF  THE AFOREMENTIONED PROVIDER AGENCIES WHEN THE SERVICES PROVIDED HAVE
 POTENTIAL FOR REGULAR AND  SUBSTANTIAL  CONTACT  WITH  SUCH  INDIVIDUALS
 UNDER  TWENTY-ONE; non-residential or residential programs or facilities
 licensed or operated by the office of mental health or  the  office  for
 people with developmental disabilities except family care homes; includ-
 ing  head  start  programs  which  are funded pursuant to title V of the
 federal economic opportunity act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-four,  as
 amended;  early  intervention  service  established  pursuant to section
 twenty-five hundred forty of the public health law;  preschool  services
 established  pursuant to section forty-four hundred ten of the education
 law; special act school districts as enumerated in chapter five  hundred
 sixty-six  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred sixty-seven, as amended;
 programs and  facilities  licensed  by  the  office  of  alcoholism  and
 substance abuse services; residential schools which are operated, super-
 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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