Bill Text: NY A00764 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a parent or other person legally responsible for a minor and the law guardian appointed pursuant to law to be present during questioning by a peace or police officer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A00764 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A00764-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 764 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to questioning of a minor by peace or police officers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 305.2 of the family court act, as 2 added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows: 3 3. If an officer takes such child into custody or if a child is deliv- 4 ered to him or her under section 305.1, he or she shall immediately 5 notify the following persons that the child has been taken into custody: 6 (a) the parent, or other person legally responsible for the child's 7 care, or if such legally responsible person is unavailable the person 8 with whom the child resides, [that the child has been taken into custo-9dy] and (b) if known by the officer, the attorney for the child, if one 10 has been appointed pursuant to section two hundred forty-nine of this 11 chapter for any pending or previous court proceeding. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00762-01-3
