Expands the definition of provider or provider agency to include private, nonprofit incorporated agencies that meet the state office of children and family services program standards for child advocacy centers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9664
IN ASSEMBLY
March 28, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to child advocacy
centers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 424-a of the social services law,
2 as amended by section 14-a of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 3. For purposes of this section, the term "provider" or "provider
5 agency" shall mean: an authorized agency; the office of children and
6 family services; a private, nonprofit incorporated agency that meets the
7 state office of children and family services program standards for child
8 advocacy centers; juvenile detention facilities subject to the certif-
9 ication of the office of children and family services; programs estab-
10 lished pursuant to article nineteen-H of the executive law; non-residen-
11 tial or residential programs or facilities licensed or operated by the
12 office of mental health or the office for people with developmental
13 disabilities except family care homes; including head start programs
14 which are funded pursuant to title V of the federal economic opportunity
15 act of nineteen hundred sixty-four, as amended; early intervention
16 service established pursuant to section twenty-five hundred forty of the
17 public health law; preschool services established pursuant to section
18 forty-four hundred ten of the education law; special act school
19 districts as enumerated in chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of
20 nineteen hundred sixty-seven, as amended; programs and facilities
21 licensed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services; resi-
22 dential schools which are operated, supervised or approved by the educa-
23 tion department; health homes, or any subcontractor of such health
24 homes, who contracts with or is approved or otherwise authorized by the
25 department of health to provide health home services to all those
26 enrolled pursuant to a diagnosis of a developmental disability as
27 defined in subdivision twenty-two of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene
28 law and enrollees who are under twenty-one years of age under section
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter, or any entity that provides
2 home and community based services to enrollees who are under twenty-one
3 years of age under a demonstration program pursuant to section eleven
4 hundred fifteen of the federal social security act; publicly-funded
5 emergency shelters for families with children, provided, however, for
6 purposes of this section, when the provider or provider agency is a
7 publicly-funded emergency shelter for families with children, then all
8 references in this section to the "potential for regular and substantial
9 contact with individuals who are cared for by the agency" shall mean the
10 potential for regular and substantial contact with children who are
11 served by such shelter; and any other facility or provider agency, as
12 defined in subdivision four of section four hundred eighty-eight of this
13 chapter, in regard to the employment of staff, or use of providers of
14 goods and services and staff of such providers, consultants, interns and
15 volunteers.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
