Amd §421, Soc Serv L; amd §5, Chap of 2025 (as proposed in S.2295 & A.5206)
Requires the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations for training requirements for child protective services workers assigned to a multidisciplinary investigative team; amends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating thereto.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9492
IN ASSEMBLY
January 7, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to training
requirements for certain child protective services workers; and to
amend a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the executive law relat-
ing to requisite training instruction for police officers for crimes
involving sexual assaults, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
2295 and A. 5206, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 421 of
2 the social services law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2025
3 amending the executive law relating to requisite training instruction
4 for police officers for crimes involving sexual assaults, as proposed in
5 legislative bills numbers S. 2295 and A. 5206, is amended to read as
6 follows:
7 The office of children and family services shall promulgate regu-
8 lations to establish [standards for the development of a] training
9 [curriculum] requirements for child protective services workers [which
10 teaches appropriate investigatory techniques for reports of sexual abuse
11 and mandates on-going training for child protective services workers]
12 consistent with subdivision five of this section, standards for inter-
13 vention, criteria for case closings, criteria for determining whether or
14 not to initiate a child protective proceeding, and criteria for the
15 formulation of treatment plans and for the delivery of child protective
16 services including specification of the services to be classified as
17 child protective services, which shall also apply to any society for the
18 prevention of cruelty to children which has entered into a currently
19 valid contract with a local department of social services to investigate
20 child abuse or maltreatment reports. The office of children and family
21 services shall promulgate regulations establishing minimum standards and
22 practices for the delivery of child protective services in connection
23 with monitoring and supervising respondents and their families as
24 ordered by a family court pursuant to section ten hundred thirty-nine
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06251-04-6
A. 9492 2
1 and paragraphs (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of subdivision (a) of section
2 ten hundred fifty-two of the family court act. Such regulations shall
3 also require local child protective services to comply with notification
4 requirements of the family court act in connection with such monitoring
5 and supervisory responsibilities.
6 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 421 of the social services law is
7 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
8 (e) promulgate regulations setting forth training requirements for
9 child protective services workers assigned to a multidisciplinary inves-
10 tigative team established pursuant to subdivision six of section four
11 hundred twenty-three of this title, which shall include appropriate
12 techniques for investigating reports of sexual abuse and requirements
13 for ongoing training.
14 § 3. Section 5 of a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the executive
15 law relating to requisite training instruction for police officers for
16 crimes involving sexual assaults, as proposed in legislative bills
17 numbers S. 2295 and A. 5206, is amended to read as follows:
18 § 5. This act shall take effect [on the ninetieth day] one year after
19 it shall have become a law.
20 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that
21 sections one and two of this act shall take effect on the same date and
22 in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the execu-
23 tive law relating to requisite training instruction for police officers
24 for crimes involving sexual assaults, as proposed in legislative bills
25 numbers S. 2295 and A. 5206, takes effect.
