S 201: Provides that in the event child protective services receives a duplicate report on an open case that has not been founded, indicated or referred to services, such duplicate report shall merge with the open case and remain open an additional thirty days for further investigation.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 201 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, BORRELLO, HELMING, MURRAY, PALUMBO, RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to certain calls received by child protective services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 424 of the social services law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 7-b to read as follows: 3 7-b. In the event child protective services receives a duplicate 4 report on an open case that has not been founded, indicated or referred 5 to services, such duplicate report shall merge with the open case and 6 remain open for an additional thirty days for further investigation. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00906-01-5