Bill Text: NY S01137 | 2013-2014 | 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 - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S01137 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S01137-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1137
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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-
9 dy] AND (B) IF KNOWN BY THE OFFICER, THE LAW GUARDIAN FOR THE CHILD, IF
10 ONE HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN APPOINTED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED
11 FORTY-NINE OF THIS CHAPTER.
12 S 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.
LBD01767-01-3
