STATE OF NEW YORK
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2060--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, GUNTHER, SANTABARBARA, DE LA ROSA --
read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
-- reference changed to the Committee on Mental Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the duty to
report incidents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 491 of the social services law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
3 (d) Every mandated reporter is required to make a report to the regis-
4 ter as outlined in paragraph (b) of this subdivision unless (i) the
5 reporter has actual knowledge that the reportable incident has been
6 reported to the register; and (ii) that the reporter has been named as a
7 person with knowledge of the incident in such prior report.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05208-03-1
