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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9732
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 20, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. LUPARDO -- (at request of the Office of Court
          Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children
          and Families
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  consents  to
          medical  treatment for destitute children placed in foster care by the
          family court
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-

        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  383-b  of the social services law, as amended by
     2  chapter 570 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 383-b.  Medical treatment for abused [or], neglected  and  destitute
     4  children;  consent  of commissioners.   The local commissioner of social
     5  services or the local commissioner of health may give effective  consent
     6  for  medical, dental, health and hospital services for any child who has
     7  been found by the family court to be an abused [child or  a],  neglected
     8  or  destitute  child,  or  who has been taken into or kept in protective
     9  custody or removed from the place where he or she is  residing,  or  who
    10  has been placed in the custody of such commissioner, pursuant to section

    11  four hundred seventeen of this [chapter] article or section one thousand
    12  twenty-two,  section one thousand twenty-four [or], section one thousand
    13  twenty-seven, section one thousand ninety-four or section  one  thousand
    14  ninety-five of the family court act.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13710-01-4