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A2657Assembly2019-2020 Session

Notify Employers of Child Abuse

Official title

“Authorizes family courts to order the local commissioner of social services to advise the employer of a respondent upon the disposition of a child protective proceeding where the respondent has contact with child”

Sponsor Andrew HevesiAD-28Affects Health
Status
In Assembly Committee
Children And Families
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Children And Families

What's happening

This bill allows family courts to order social services to notify a respondent's employer if they abused a child and work with children.

Why it matters

  1. Aims to increase child safety. by ensuring that employers who oversee staff working directly with children are notified if an employee is found by the family court to have abused a child.

  2. Could impact employment and workplace policies. for organizations that serve children, as they would receive formal notice of an employee’s adjudication and may need to take protective or disciplinary action.

  3. Expands the consequences of abuse findings. beyond the family court and home, potentially affecting a respondent’s professional life and future ability to work with children.

  4. Strengthens coordination between the courts and social services. , requiring them to proactively inform employers, which may help prevent individuals with a history of abuse from continuing to have unsupervised access to children in a work setting.

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Notify Employers of Child Abuse

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Andrew Hevesi

Assembly Member · Assembly District 28

Chair, Children and Families

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History

  1. Referred to children and families
  2. Referred to children and families

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2657

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 24, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families

AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to authorizing family courts to order the local commissioner of social services to notify a respondent's employer upon the disposition of a child protective proceeding when such respondent has contact with children in the course of his or her employment

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Paragraph (vii) of subdivision (a) of section 1052 of the family court act, as amended by chapter 567 of the laws of 2015, is amended and a new paragraph (viii) is added to read as follows:

(vii) granting custody of the child to a non-respondent parent or parents pursuant to article six of this act[.]; or

(viii) ordering the local commissioner of social services to advise the respondent's employer of the adjudication if there is a finding that the child was abused, and if the respondent is employed where he or she has contact with children.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD01051-01-9

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