New York Assembly Bill 4305 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-08 - referred to children and families
Pending: Assembly Children and Families Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Modifies the existing exemption from requiring a determination of what constitutes prima facie evidence of neglect where a parent or guardian engages in substance abuse or substantial manifestation of irrationality but is voluntarily and regularly participating in a recognized rehabilitative program so as to require the parent or guardian to have voluntarily participated in and to have successfully completed such a program and to have been verifiably rehabilitated for an uninterrupted period of one year immediately prior to the hearing date, before such exemption applies.

Modifies the existing exemption from requiring a determination of what constitutes prima facie evidence of neglect where a parent or guardian engages in substance abuse or substantial manifestation of irrationality but is voluntarily and regularly participating in a recognized rehabilitative program so as to require the parent or guardian to have voluntarily participated in and to have successfully completed such a program and to have been verifiably rehabilitated for an uninterrupted period of one year immediately prior to the hearing date, before such exemption applies.

Asm. David Weprin [D]	Asm. William Colton [D]	Asm. Vivian Cook [D]	Asm. Sandra Galef [D]
Asm. Michael Miller [D]	Asm. Nick Perry [D]	Asm. Robin Schimminger [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-08	Assembly	referred to children and families
2019-02-04	Assembly	referred to children and families

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A4305
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A04305&term=2019&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A04305