Assembly Bill A2324

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires local child protective services to notify appropriate military personnel when a member of the armed forces is the subject of a report of child abuse or maltreatment

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A2324 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6543
Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§424 & 424-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A6427

2023-A2324 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires local child protective services to notify appropriate military personnel when a member of the armed forces is the subject of a report of child abuse or maltreatment; allows military law enforcement personnel to inquire of local child protective services whether any member of the armed forces is the subject of an indicated report on file with the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.

2023-A2324 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2324
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring local
   child protective services to  notify  appropriate  military  personnel
   when  a member of the armed forces is the subject of a report of child
   abuse or maltreatment

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 424 of the social services law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
   3-A.  ASCERTAIN  WHETHER  ANY  SUBJECT  OF A REPORT OF SUSPECTED CHILD
 ABUSE OR MALTREATMENT IS A MEMBER OF, OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH,  THE
 ARMED  FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES.  IF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES DETER-
 MINES THAT SUCH SUBJECT IS A MEMBER OF, OR  OTHERWISE  ASSOCIATED  WITH,
 THE  ARMED  FORCES  OF THE UNITED STATES, SUCH CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
 SHALL NOTIFY AND SEND A COPY OF SUCH REPORT  TO  THE  SECRETARY  OF  THE
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE THAT THERE IS AN ALLEGATION OF ABUSE
 AND  NEGLECT  THAT  RELATES  TO  SUCH  MEMBER OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE
 UNITED STATES;
   § 2. Subdivision 5-a of section 424 of the  social  services  law,  as
 added by chapter 494 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   5-a.  give  telephone notice and forward immediately a copy of reports
 made pursuant to this title which involve suspected physical  injury  as
 described  in  paragraph  (i)  of subdivision (e) of section ten hundred
 twelve of the family court act or sexual abuse of a child or  the  death
 of  a  child  to  the  appropriate local law enforcement OR MILITARY LAW
 ENFORCEMENT, WHEN APPLICABLE. Investigations shall be  conducted  by  an
 approved  multidisciplinary  investigative team, established pursuant to
 subdivision six of section  four  hundred  twenty-three  of  this  title
 provided that in counties without a multidisciplinary investigative team
 investigations  shall  be  conducted  jointly  by local child protective
 services and local law enforcement OR  MILITARY  LAW  ENFORCEMENT,  WHEN
 APPLICABLE.    Provided  however,  that  co-reporting in these instances
 shall not be required when the local social  services  district  has  an

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