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Assembly Bill A5697

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Enacts the child protection reform act; repealer

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2009-A5697 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1011 & 1051, rpld & add §1012 subs (e) & (f), rpld §1012 sub (h), add Art 10 Part 9 §§1085-a - 1085-e, Fam Ct Act; rpld §371 subs 4-a & 4-b, amd §§371, 384-b, 422 & 424, Soc Serv L

2009-A5697 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the child protection reform act; redefines "abused" and "neglected child;" authorizes the family court in each county to appoint a local probation service to serve as an adjustment agency for the purposes of receiving referrals from the family court and to determine what services, if any, the family requires; requires court to dismiss abuse and/or neglect proceedings if the court finds that the local social services agency has failed to offer or provide certain services

2009-A5697 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  5697

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 17, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ, CLARK, ALFANO, BARRA -- Multi-Sponsored
  by  --  M. of A. COOK, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, P. RIVERA, TOWNS -- read once
  and referred to the Committee on Children and Families

AN ACT to amend the family court act and the  social  services  law,  in
  relation  to  enacting  the  child protection reform act and repealing
  certain provisions of such act and such law relating to child welfare

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

  Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as the "Child
Protection Reform Act".
  S 2. Section 1011 of the family court act, as added by chapter 962  of
the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
  S  1011.  Purpose. This article is designed to establish procedures to
help protect children from injury or mistreatment IN THEIR OWN HOMES, TO
PROTECT CHILDREN FROM UNNECESSARY SEPARATION FROM THEIR  OWN  HOMES  AND
FAMILIES,  and  to  help safeguard their physical, mental, and emotional
well-being.  It is designed to provide a due process of law  for  deter-
mining  when  the state, through its family court, may intervene against
the wishes of a parent on behalf of a child so that  [his]  THE  CHILD'S
needs are properly met.
  S  3. Subdivisions (e) and (f) of section 1012 of the family court act
are REPEALED and two new subdivisions (e) and (f) are added to  read  as
follows:
  (E)  "ABUSED CHILD" MEANS A CHILD LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE WHEN
THE RESPONDENT:
  (I) INFLICTS, OR BY HIS OR HER CONDUCT, WITH KNOWLEDGE  OR  DELIBERATE
INDIFFERENCE,  ALLOWS TO BE INFLICTED, UPON SUCH CHILD, SERIOUS PHYSICAL
INJURY BY OTHER THAN ACCIDENTAL MEANS WHICH CREATES A  SUBSTANTIAL  RISK
OF  DEATH  OR  CAUSES  DEATH  OR SERIOUS OR PROTRACTED DISFIGUREMENT, OR
PROTRACTED IMPAIRMENT OF PHYSICAL HEALTH OR PROTRACTED LOSS  OR  IMPAIR-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08404-01-9

              

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