Requires child protective service or other child protective agency to report findings regarding children allegedly abused or neglected within fourteen days where ordered or requested by court to investigate, unless just cause can be shown to extend such time to twenty-one days.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4583
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to investigations of
abused or neglected children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 1034 of
2 the family court act, as amended by chapter 329 of the laws of 2009, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 A family court judge may order the child protective service of the
5 appropriate social services district to conduct a child protective
6 investigation as described by the social services law and report, within
7 fourteen days of such order or request, unless just cause can be shown
8 to extend the time to twenty-one days, and such court may set such other
9 time limits at the court's discretion, its findings to the court:
10 § 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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