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Assembly Bill A9280

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Removes research restrictions from certain unfounded reports of alleged abuse or maltreatment

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2025-A9280 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§422 & 427-a, Soc Serv L

2025-A9280 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes certain restrictions on the release of unfounded reports of alleged abuse or maltreatment reports for persons engaged in a bona fide research purpose.

2025-A9280 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9280
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 21, 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 removing
   research restrictions from certain unfounded reports of alleged  abuse
   or maltreatment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraphs (iv) and (v) of paragraph (a) of  subdivision
 5  of  section  422  of  the  social  services law, subparagraph (iv) as
 amended by chapter 555 of the laws of  2000,  and  subparagraph  (v)  as
 amended  by  chapter  256  of  the  laws  of 2014, are amended and a new
 subparagraph (vi) is added to read as follows:
   (iv) to the subject of the report; [and]
   (v) to a district attorney, an assistant district attorney, an  inves-
 tigator  employed  in  the  office of a district attorney, or to a sworn
 officer of the division of state police, of  a  city,  county,  town  or
 village  police  department  or  of  a county sheriff's office when such
 official verifies that the report is  necessary  to  conduct  an  active
 investigation  or  prosecution  of  a  violation  of subdivision four of
 section 240.50 of the penal law[.]; AND
   (VI) TO ANY PERSON ENGAGED IN A BONA FIDE RESEARCH PURPOSE,  PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER,  THAT NO INFORMATION IDENTIFYING THE SUBJECTS OF THE REPORT AND
 OTHER PERSONS NAMED IN  THE  REPORT  SHALL  BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  TO  THE
 RESEARCHER UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO THE RESEARCH PURPOSE AND
 THE DEPARTMENT GIVES PRIOR APPROVAL.
   §  2.  Subparagraph (vii) of paragraph (d) of subdivision 5 of section
 427-a of the social services law, as amended by chapter 377 of the  laws
 of  2011,  is  amended and a new subparagraph (viii) is added to read as
 follows:
   (vii) the subject of the report included in the records of the  family
 assessment and services track[.]; AND

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14039-02-5

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