Relates to training requirements for certain child protective services workers, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9492
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2026
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 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  training
   requirements  for  certain  child  protective services workers; and to
   amend a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the executive law  relat-
   ing  to  requisite training instruction for police officers for crimes
   involving sexual assaults, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
   2295 and A. 5206, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  closing paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 421 of
 the social services law, as amended by a chapter of  the  laws  of  2025
 amending  the  executive  law relating to requisite training instruction
 for police officers for crimes involving sexual assaults, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 2295 and A. 5206, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   The  office  of  children  and  family services shall promulgate regu-
 lations to establish [standards  for  the  development  of  a]  training
 [curriculum]  REQUIREMENTS  for child protective services workers [which
 teaches appropriate investigatory techniques for reports of sexual abuse
 and mandates on-going training for child  protective  services  workers]
 CONSISTENT  WITH  SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION, standards for inter-
 vention, criteria for case closings, criteria for determining whether or
 not to initiate a child protective  proceeding,  and  criteria  for  the
 formulation  of treatment plans and for the delivery of child protective
 services including specification of the services  to  be  classified  as
 child protective services, which shall also apply to any society for the
 prevention  of  cruelty  to  children which has entered into a currently
 valid contract with a local department of social services to investigate
 child abuse or maltreatment reports. The office of children  and  family
 services shall promulgate regulations establishing minimum standards and
 practices  for  the  delivery of child protective services in connection
 with monitoring  and  supervising  respondents  and  their  families  as
 ordered  by  a  family court pursuant to section ten hundred thirty-nine
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 and paragraphs (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of subdivision  (a)  of  section
 ten  hundred  fifty-two  of the family court act. Such regulations shall
 also require local child protective services to comply with notification
 requirements  of the family court act in connection with such monitoring
 and supervisory responsibilities.
   § 2. Subdivision 5 of section  421  of  the  social  services  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
   (E)  PROMULGATE  REGULATIONS  SETTING  FORTH TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR
 CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES WORKERS ASSIGNED TO A MULTIDISCIPLINARY INVES-
 TIGATIVE TEAM ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SIX  OF  SECTION  FOUR
 HUNDRED  TWENTY-THREE  OF  THIS  TITLE,  WHICH SHALL INCLUDE APPROPRIATE
 TECHNIQUES FOR INVESTIGATING REPORTS OF SEXUAL  ABUSE  AND  REQUIREMENTS
 FOR ONGOING TRAINING.
   § 3. Section 5 of a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the executive
 law  relating  to requisite training instruction for police officers for
 crimes involving sexual  assaults,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
 numbers S. 2295 and A. 5206, is amended to read as follows:
   §  5. This act shall take effect [on the ninetieth day] ONE YEAR after
 it shall have become a law.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided,  however  that
 sections  one and two of this act shall take effect on the same date and
 in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the  execu-
 tive  law relating to requisite training instruction for police officers
 for crimes involving sexual assaults, as proposed in  legislative  bills
 numbers S. 2295 and A.  5206, takes effect.