Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jan 08, 2020 |
referred to children and families returned to senate died in assembly |
Mar 18, 2019 |
referred to children and families delivered to assembly passed senate |
Feb 26, 2019 |
advanced to third reading |
Feb 12, 2019 |
2nd report cal. |
Feb 11, 2019 |
1st report cal.133 |
Jan 09, 2019 |
referred to children and families |
Senate Bill S588
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 63rd Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) 46th Senate District
(D) 26th Senate District
2019-S588 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S588 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S588 SPONSOR: KENNEDY TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the social services law, in relation to the interviewing of children in the presence of other persons PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The purpose of this bill is to prevent children from being interviewed by Child Protective Services workers, in the presence of others. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Amends social services law, in relation to the interviewing of children in the presence of the subject of the report. JUSTIFICATION:
2019-S588 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 588 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, BRESLIN -- 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 the interviewing of children in the presence of other persons THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 424 of the social services law, as amended by chapter 281 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: (a) upon receipt of such report, commence or cause the appropriate society for the prevention of cruelty to children to commence, within twenty-four hours, an appropriate investigation which shall include an evaluation of the environment of the child named in the report and any other children in the same home and a determination of the risk to such children if they continue to remain in the existing home environment, as well as a determination of the nature, extent and cause of any condition enumerated in such report and the name, age and condition of other chil- dren in the home, and, after seeing to the safety of the child or chil- dren, forthwith notify the subjects of the report and other persons named in the report in writing of the existence of the report and their respective rights pursuant to this title in regard to amendment. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, THE SUBJECT CHILD OF SUCH A REPORT SHALL NOT BE INTERVIEWED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SUBJECT OF THE REPORT; § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03588-01-9
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