Authorizes the issuance of an order of protection in a child protective proceeding against a parent of a child when such parent is found to have severely abused another child.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3556
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the issuance of
orders of protection in child protective proceedings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1056 of the family court act, as
2 added by chapter 622 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
3 4. The court may enter an order of protection independently of any
4 other order made under this part, against a person who [was a member of
5 the child's household or a person legally responsible as defined in
6 section one thousand twelve of this chapter, and who is no longer a
7 member of such household at the time of the disposition and who is not
8 related by blood or marriage to the child or a member of the child's
9 household] is not the child's biological parent or adoptive parent, or
10 against a child's biological or adoptive parent who has been found to
11 have severely abused any child. An order of protection entered pursuant
12 to this subdivision may be for any period of time up to the child's
13 eighteenth birthday and upon such conditions as the court deems neces-
14 sary and proper to protect the health and safety of the child and the
15 child's caretaker.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05556-01-9
