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Assembly Bill A3970

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Clarifies the timeline and details needed for child protective services to declare whether a report is "indicated" or "unfounded"

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2025-A3970 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §424, Soc Serv L

2025-A3970 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the timeline and details needed for child protective services to declare whether a report is "indicated" or "unfounded" including examining past family history.

2025-A3970 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3970
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by 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 clarifying when
   and how a child protective services report is determined
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 424 of the social services law, as
 amended  by  chapter  164  of  the  laws  of 1991, is amended to read as
 follows:
   7. determine, within sixty days OR AS SOON AS  IT  DEEMS  APPROPRIATE,
 whether  the  report is "indicated" or "unfounded", IF, AFTER CONDUCTING
 ITS INITIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CURRENT REPORT AND THOROUGHLY REVIEWING
 THE FAMILY'S HISTORY WITH THE LOCAL  CHILD  PROTECTIVE  AGENCY,  (A)  IT
 DETERMINES  THAT  THERE  IS A HISTORY OF PRIOR UNFOUNDED REPORTS OR THAT
 THE REPORT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE PURPOSE OF HARASSMENT,  AND
 (B)  IT HAS NOT UNCOVERED ANY NEW CONCERNS ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE CHIL-
 DREN DURING ITS INITIAL INVESTIGATION AND DETERMINED THAT THE NEW REPORT
 IS LIKELY UNFOUNDED;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01909-01-5

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