New York A 823: 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

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A00823 Summary:

BILL NOA00823 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05406

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SPONSORKim

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COSPNSRTaylor, Burdick, Lunsford, DeStefano, Bendett, Fall, Stirpe, Angelino, Simone, Davila, Shimsky,
 Sayegh, Lupardo, Gibbs, Chandler-Waterman, Weprin, Colton, Gonzalez-Rojas, Tapia, Blankenbush,
 Cook, Berger, Gray, Sempolinski, Santabarbara, Meeks, Reyes, Williams, Tague, Kassay, Zaccaro,
 Gallagher, Steck

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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 NOA00823 

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01/08/2025referred to social services

01/07/2026referred to social services

03/12/2026enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 823

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. KIM, TAYLOR, BURDICK, LUNSFORD, DeSTEFANO,
 BENDETT, FALL, STIRPE, ANGELINO, SIMONE, DAVILA, SHIMSKY, SAYEGH,
 LUPARDO, GIBBS, CHANDLER-WATERMAN -- 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

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

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 1 the mandated reporter to have the same information as the mandated
 2 reporter concerning the reportable incident. [Nothing in this subdivi-
 3 sion shall be construed to prohibit a mandated reporter from contacting
 4 or reporting to law enforcement or emergency services before or after
 5 reporting to the vulnerable persons' central register.]
 6 (c) The substance or content of any psychological, psychiatric, thera-
 7 peutic, clinical or medical reports, evaluations or like materials or
 8 information pertaining to the treatment of a patient or client of a
 9 mandatory reporter who reports a reportable incident of such patient or
 10 client pursuant to this article, must be provided by such mandatory
 11 reporter upon request of the justice center for the protection of people
 12 with special needs if such records are essential for a full investi-
 13 gation of such allegation, not