Senate Bill S3339

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to citizen review panels

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee


  • 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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2023-S3339 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §371-b, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S8044

2023-S3339 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to citizen review panels being established in each region of the state in accordance with section two hundred thirty of the economic development law.

2023-S3339 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3339 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3339
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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  citizen  review
   panels
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 371-b of the social services  law,
 as  added  by  chapter  136  of  the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. There shall be established at  least  [three]  ONE  citizen  review
 [panels.  At  least  one  panel shall be established for the city of New
 York and at least two panels shall be established  for  social  services
 districts  or combinations of districts outside of the city of New York]
 PANEL IN EACH REGION OF THE STATE ESTABLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION
 TWO HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LAW.   The panel  in  the
 city  of New York shall create one subcommittee for each borough for the
 purposes of evaluating the extent to which  the  state  and  the  social
 services  district  are  discharging their child protection responsibil-
 ities within that particular  borough,  in  accordance  with  subsection
 three of this section.  The office of children and family services shall
 make  available  resources  to  support the needs of each citizen review
 panel.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03059-01-3



              

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