File #: Int 1729-2019    Version: Name: Requiring ACS to provide information to parents or caretakers about their right to request a fair hearing to appeal an indicated report.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 9/25/2019
Enactment date: 11/21/2021 Law number: 2021/135
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the administration for children's services to provide information to parents or caretakers about their right to request a fair hearing to appeal an indicated report
Sponsors: Stephen T. Levin, Deborah L. Rose, Margaret S. Chin, Diana I. Ayala, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Brad S. Lander, Justin L. Brannan, Antonio Reynoso, Adrienne E. Adams, Darma V. Diaz, Helen K. Rosenthal, Karen Koslowitz, Ben Kallos, Farah N. Louis, Eric Dinowitz, Inez D. Barron, Kalman Yeger , Vanessa L. Gibson
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Summary: This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to provide a parent or caretaker written information about their right to request a fair hearing to challenge an indicated report made against a parent or caretaker during an ACS child protective investigation.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1729-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1729, 3. Int. No. 1729, 4. September 25, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-25-19, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 25, 2019, 7. Committee Report 10/31/19, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/31/19, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/31/19, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1729-A - 10/18/21, 11. Committee Report 10/21/21, 12. Hearing Transcript 10/21/21, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. October 21, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-21-21, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 21, 2021, 17. Int. No. 1729-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 135
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
11/22/2021AStephen T. Levin City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/21/2021AStephen T. Levin Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AStephen T. Levin City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AStephen T. Levin City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Stephen T. Levin Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Stephen T. Levin Committee on General Welfare Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Stephen T. Levin Committee on General Welfare Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AStephen T. Levin Committee on General Welfare Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2019*Stephen T. Levin Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2019*Stephen T. Levin Committee on General Welfare Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/25/2019*Stephen T. Levin City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/25/2019*Stephen T. Levin City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1729-A

 

By Council Members Levin, Rose, Chin, Ayala, Ampry-Samuel, Lander, Brannan, Reynoso, Adams, D. Diaz, Rosenthal, Koslowitz, Kallos, Louis, Dinowitz, Barron, Yeger and Gibson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the administration for children’s services to provide information to parents or caretakers about their right to request a fair hearing to appeal an indicated report

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 9 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-921 to read as follows:

§ 21-921 Information regarding the right to request a fair hearing. a. Where, following an ACS child protective investigation, a report against a parent or person legally responsible for the child is indicated, ACS shall provide to the parent or person legally responsible for the child written information regarding the process for requesting a fair hearing to challenge such indication, which begins at the state level with an administrative review, pursuant to section 422 of the social services law.

b. Such information will be provided in the designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 150 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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