New York S 6136: Relates to the mandatory reporting of senior abuse or maltreatment

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S06136 Summary:

BILL NOS06136 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10020

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SPONSORPARKER

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 9-B Title 4 §473-f, Soc Serv L

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Identifies persons to be mandatory reporters of senior abuse or maltreatment; describes the procedures and steps to be taken to report senior abuse to adult protective services.

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BILL NOS06136 

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03/05/2025REFERRED TO AGING

01/07/2026REFERRED TO AGING

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6136

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to mandatory
 reporting of senior abuse or maltreatment

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

 1 Section 1. Article 9-B of the social services law is amended by adding
 2 a new title 4 to read as follows:
 3 TITLE 4
 4 DUTY TO REPORT SENIOR ABUSE
 5 Section 473-f. Duty to report senior abuse.
 6 § 473-f. Duty to report senior abuse. 1. As used in this section:
 7 (a) "Senior" means a person sixty years of age or older.
 8 (b) "Person legally responsible for a senior" means and includes the
 9 senior's custodian, guardian or any other person formally or informally
 10 responsible for the senior's care at the relevant time, any person
 11 acting with power of attorney, trustee appointed by a court, or any
 12 person who by consent, contract or legal order acts to arrange the
 13 affairs of the senior.
 14 (c) "Abused senior" means and includes a senior abused in any of the
 15 following manners:
 16 (i) "Physical abuse" means the non-accidental use of force that
 17 results in the suffering of bodily injury, physical pain or impairment
 18 resulting from the use of physical force against a senior, including but
 19 not limited to, striking with or without an object, hitting, beating,
 20 pushing, shoving, shaking, kicking, pinching, being slapped, burned,
 21 cut, bruised or improperly physically restrained. Physical abuse also
 22 includes any physical signs of impairment or of being subjected to
 23 punishment, or signs of being restrained, or a senior's report of being
 24 hit, slapped, kicked, or mistreated.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10666-01-5

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 1 (ii) "Sexual abuse" means non-consensual sexual contact of any kind
 2 with a senior, including but not limited to, unwanted touching, sexual
 3 assault or battery, rape, sodomy, coerced nudity, and sexually explicit
 4 photographing, forcing sexual contact or forcing sex with a third party.
 5 (iii) "Emotional or psychological abuse" means willful infliction of
 6 mental or emotional anguish by threat, humiliation, intimidation or
 7 other abusive conduct, including but not limited to, frightening or
 8 isolating an adult. Emotional or psychological abuse may also include
 9 the infliction of anguish, pain or distress through verbal or nonverbal
 10 acts, including but not limited to verbal assaults, insults, threats,
 11 intimidation, humiliation, and harassment, infantilizing a senior,
 12 isolating a senior from such senior's family, friends or regular activ-
 13 ities, or enforced social isolation, the results of which may be evinced
 14 by impairments including but not limited to the caregiver's refusal to
 15 allow visitors to see a senior alone, or changes in the senior's behav-
 16 ior that result in the senior being emotionally upset or agitated, being
 17 extremely withdrawn and noncommunicative or nonresponsive, unusual
 18 behavior usually attributed to dementia (e.g. sucking, biting, rock-
 19 ing).
 20 (iv) "Neglect" means the refusal or failure to fulfill any part of a
 21 person's obligations or duties to a senior, failure of a person who has
 22 fiduciary responsibilities to provide care for a senior or the failure
 23 on the part of an in-home service provider to provide such necessary
 24 c