Provides that certain camps may make inquiries of and be provided with information from the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment to determine if any person who may have contact with children is on file on such register.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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958
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLER, WEPRIN, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, JAFFEE,
GUNTHER, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
ARROYO, CROUCH, LOPEZ, MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the access of
certain information contained in the central register of child abuse
and maltreatment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 424-a of the social services law is renumbered subparagraph (v)
3 and a new subparagraph (iv) is added to read as follows:
4 (iv) A camp subject to the provisions of article thirteen-A or thir-
5 teen-B of the public health law may inquire of the office of children
6 and family services, and the office shall, upon receipt of such inquiry
7 and subject to the provisions of paragraph (e) of this subdivision,
8 inform such agency and the subject of the inquiry whether any person who
9 is actively being considered for employment and who will have the poten-
10 tial for regular and substantial contact with children who are cared for
11 by the agency, is the subject of an indicated child abuse and maltreat-
12 ment report on file with the statewide central register of child abuse
13 and maltreatment.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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