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Assembly Bill A11698

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Excludes certain social workers employed or supervised by lawyers from reporting cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment

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2025-A11698 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §413, Soc Serv L

2025-A11698 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes certain social workers employed or supervised by lawyers from reporting cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment when the belief of suspected child abuse or maltreatment arises solely out of the course of representation or the seeking of representation.

2025-A11698 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11698
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 2, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  excluding
   certain  social workers employed or supervised by lawyers from report-
   ing cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social services law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
   (E) A SOCIAL WORKER SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO REPORT CASES OF SUSPECTED
 CHILD ABUSE OR MALTREATMENT WHEN SUCH SOCIAL WORKER IS:
   (I) EMPLOYED OR SUPERVISED BY A LAWYER WHO IS PROVIDING REPRESENTATION
 IN A CRIMINAL OR CIVIL MATTER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO A FAMILY LAW
 OR DELINQUENCY MATTER, AND THE BASIS FOR THE BELIEF OF  SUSPECTED  CHILD
 ABUSE  OR  MALTREATMENT  ARISES  SOLELY  IN THE COURSE OF SUCH REPRESEN-
 TATION; OR
   (II) EMPLOYED OR SUPERVISED BY A LAWYER WITH WHOM A PROSPECTIVE CLIENT
 IS SEEKING REPRESENTATION IN A CRIMINAL OR CIVIL MATTER,  INCLUDING  BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO A FAMILY LAW OR DELINQUENCY MATTER, AND THE BASIS FOR THE
 BELIEF  OF  SUSPECTED  CHILD  ABUSE OR MALTREATMENT ARISES SOLELY IN THE
 COURSE OF SEEKING SUCH REPRESENTATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16273-01-6

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