New York A 10655: Directs the department of health and other state departments and agencies to conduct a study on the quality of life and human health impacts of Westchester county airport

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A10655 Summary:

BILL NOA10655 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05406

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SPONSORSantabarbara

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COSPNSRKim, Reyes

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §491, Soc Serv L

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Requires all state and private agencies with mandatory reporters of incidents involving vulnerable people to retrain all staff on reporting to a 9-1-1 operator and the county district attorney's office and state and private websites; requires written materials to be updated.

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BILL NOA10655 

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03/19/2026referred to social services

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10655

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 19, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring all
 state and private agencies with mandatory reporters of incidents
 involving vulnerable people to retrain all staff on reporting to a
 9-1-1 operator and the county district attorney's office

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

 1 Section 1. Section 491 of the social services law, as added by section
 2 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws of 2012, paragraph (d) of subdi-
 3 vision 1 as added by chapter 391 of the laws of 2023, subdivision 4 as
 4 amended by chapter 126 of the laws of 2014 and subdivision 5 as added by
 5 chapter 422 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
 6 § 491. Duty to report incidents. 1. (a) Mandated reporters shall
 7 report allegations of reportable incidents to a 9-1-1 operator, the
 8 county district attorney's office and the vulnerable persons' central
 9 register as established by section four hundred ninety-two of this arti-
 10 cle and in accordance with the requirements set forth therein.
 11 (b) Allegations of reportable incidents shall be reported immediately
 12 to a 9-1-1 operator, the county district attorney's office and the
 13 vulnerable persons' central register upon discovery. For purposes of
 14 this article, "discovery" occurs when the mandated reporter witnesses a
 15 suspected reportable incident or when another person, including the
 16 vulnerable person, comes before the mandated reporter in the mandated
 17 reporter's professional or official capacity and provides the mandated
 18 reporter with reasonable cause to suspect that the vulnerable person has
 19 been subjected to a reportable incident. A report to the register shall
 20 include the name, title and contact information of every person known to
 21 the mandated reporter to have the same information as the mandated
 22 reporter concerning the reportable incident. [Nothing in this subdivi-
 23 sion shall be construed to prohibit a mandated reporter from contacting
 24 or reporting to law enforcement or emergency services before or after
 25 reporting to the vulnerable persons' central register.]

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01854-01-5

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 1 (c) The substance or content of any psychological, psychiatric, thera-
 2 peutic, clinical or medical reports, evaluations or like materials or
 3 information pertaining to the treatment of a patient or client of a
 4 mandatory reporter who reports a reportable incident of such patient or
 5 client pursuant to this article, must be provided by such mandatory
 6 reporter upon request of the justice center for the protection of people
 7 with special needs if such records are essential for a full investi-
 8 gation of such allegation, notwithstanding any applicable privilege
 9 which would otherwise bar the disclosure of such materials and records
 10 pursuant to article forty-five of the civil practice law and rules or
 11 other provision of law except applicable federal law governing the
 12 disclosure of patient and related medical records.
 13 (d) Every mandated reporter is required to make a report to the regis-
 14 ter as outlined in paragraph (b) of this subdivision unless (i) the
 15 reporter has actual knowledge that the reportable incident has been