Assembly Bill A6898

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires child protective services to document each home visit with photographs

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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-A6898 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§421 & 372, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8561
2019-2020: A5903
2023-2024: A5175

2021-A6898 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires child protective services to document every home visit or contact with the child as part of a treatment plan, supervision and monitoring, with photographs of the child.

2021-A6898 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6898
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TANNOUSIS  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  child
   protective services to document home visits with photographs
 
   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  "Marchella
 Pierce's Law".
   §  2.    Subdivision  3  of section 421 of the social services law, as
 amended by chapter 718 of the laws of 1986, paragraph (a) as amended  by
 chapter  110 of the laws of 1989 and the closing paragraph as amended by
 chapter 320 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   3. promulgate regulations setting forth requirements for the  perform-
 ance  by  local  social  services  departments  of the duties and powers
 imposed and conferred upon them by the provisions of this title  and  of
 article  ten  of  the family court act. Such regulations shall establish
 uniform requirements for the investigation of reports of child abuse  or
 maltreatment  under  this  title. The department shall also issue guide-
 lines which shall set forth the circumstances or conditions under which:
   (a) personal contact shall be made with the child named in the  report
 and  any  other  children  in the same household, including interviewing
 such child or children absent the subject of the report whenever  possi-
 ble and appropriate;
   (b) photographs of visible physical injuries or trauma of children who
 may  be  the victims of abuse or maltreatment shall be taken or arranged
 for;
   (c) medical examination of a child who may be a  victim  of  abuse  or
 maltreatment and documentation of findings of such examination, shall be
 required.
   The department shall promulgate regulations to establish standards for
 intervention,  criteria  for  case  closings,  criteria  for determining
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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