A 9174: Decreases the amount of time from eight years to four years for the office of children and family services to inform the provider or licensing agency, or child care resource and referral programs whether or not the person is the subject of an indicated child abuse and maltreatment report.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9174 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY October 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the sealing of certain records The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Item (II) of clause (B) of subparagraph (i) and clause (B) 2 of subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 424-a 3 of the social services law, as amended by section 9 of part R of chapter 4 56 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows: 5 (II) the person is not the subject of an indicated report of child 6 abuse and is the subject of a report of child maltreatment where the 7 indication for child maltreatment occurred within less than [eight] four 8 years from the date of the inquiry. 9 (B) Where the subject of the report is not the subject of any indi- 10 cated report of child abuse and is the subject of a report of child 11 maltreatment where the indication for child maltreatment occurred more 12 than [eight] four years prior to the date of the inquiry, any such indi- 13 cation of child maltreatment shall be deemed to be not relevant and 14 reasonably related to employment. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13830-01-5