Improves child welfare investigations by improving the central register - requiring calls made to the central register be recorded and such recording made part of any report of suspected child abuse or neglect.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7042
IN SENATE
April 21, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to technological
improvements to the central register
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 422 of the social services law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
3 (a-1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no later
4 than January first, two thousand sixteen, the office of children and
5 families services as part of the central register shall:
6 (i) record all voice calls made to the central register and shall make
7 such recording a part of any report of suspected child abuse or neglect;
8 (ii) immediately transmit such voice recording as part of the record
9 of an allegation of child abuse and neglect to the appropriate local
10 child protective services for investigation; and
11 (iii) maintain recordings of any call that did not constitute a report
12 of child abuse or neglect for at least two years and any call that did
13 constitute a report of child abuse or neglect for at least five years.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14784-02-4
