Senate Bill S6813

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to medical treatment for abused, neglected and destitute children

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A9732 - Signed by Governor


  • 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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2013-S6813 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9732
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §383-b, Soc Serv L

2013-S6813 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the local commissioner of social services or local commissioner of heath may give consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services for any child found by the family court to be an abused, neglected or destitute child.

2013-S6813 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S6813 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6813

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 12, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- (at request of the Office of Court Adminis-
  tration)  --  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  consents  to
  medical  treatment for destitute children placed in foster care by the
  family court

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

  Section  1.  Section  383-b  of the social services law, as amended by
chapter 570 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
  S 383-b.  Medical treatment for abused [or], neglected  AND  DESTITUTE
children;  consent  of commissioners.   The local commissioner of social
services or the local commissioner of health may give effective  consent
for  medical, dental, health and hospital services for any child who has
been found by the family court to be an abused [child or  a],  neglected
OR  DESTITUTE  child,  or  who has been taken into or kept in protective
custody or removed from the place where he OR SHE is  residing,  or  who
has been placed in the custody of such commissioner, pursuant to section
four hundred seventeen of this [chapter] ARTICLE or section one thousand
twenty-two,  section one thousand twenty-four [or], section one thousand
twenty-seven, SECTION ONE THOUSAND NINETY-FOUR OR SECTION  ONE  THOUSAND
NINETY-FIVE of the family court act.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13710-01-4


              

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