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Senate Bill S10070

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the protection of people with special needs and the confidentiality of certain documents

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2025-S10070 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly People With Disabilities
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §496, Soc Serv L

2025-S10070 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to confidentiality in cases involving the protection of people with special needs; allows the state comptroller's office to unseal certain documents.

2025-S10070 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10070 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10070
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 27, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- (at request of the State Comptroller) -- read
   twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
   Committee on Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   certain  reports relating to reportable incidents involving vulnerable
   persons to be made available to officers and employees  of  the  state
   comptroller for the purposes of a duly authorized performance audit
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (f) and (g) of subdivision 1 of section  496  of
 the  social services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501
 of the laws of 2012, are amended and a new paragraph  (h)  is  added  to
 read as follows:
   (f)  the  independent agency designated pursuant to subdivision (b) of
 section five hundred fifty-eight of the  executive  law,  provided  that
 such  information  is relevant to a matter within the legal authority of
 such agency; [or]
   (g) other persons named in the report, as defined in subdivision thir-
 teen  of  section  four  hundred  eighty-eight  of  this  article  which
 includes, but is not limited to, the service recipient's parent, guardi-
 an or other person legally responsible for such person; provided, howev-
 er,  that  the  names  and  other  personally identifying information of
 custodians and other service recipients shall  not  be  included  unless
 such  custodians  and service recipients authorize disclosure.  Notwith-
 standing the prohibitions on non-redisclosure set forth in  the  closing
 sentence  of  this  subdivision, the service recipient, and such service
 recipient's parent, guardian or other  person  legally  responsible  for
 such  service recipient may disclose information and reports made avail-
 able pursuant to this paragraph to an attorney, who  shall  not  further
 disclose  except  as  is necessary for use by such attorney in rendering
 advice, assistance and representation[.]; OR
   (H) OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER, FOR PURPOSES OF A
 DULY AUTHORIZED PERFORMANCE AUDIT; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH OFFICERS
 AND EMPLOYEES SHALL PROTECT THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE  SERVICE  RECIPI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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