The New York City Council - File #: Int 1161-2018

• File #: Int 1161-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Enhanced reporting on the child welfare system.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Filed (End of Session)
• File created: 10/17/2018
• In control: Committee on General Welfare
• On agenda: 10/17/2018
• Final action: 12/31/2021
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to enhanced reporting on the child welfare system
• Sponsors: Stephen T. Levin, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Adrienne E. Adams, Justin L. Brannan, Antonio Reynoso, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Darma V. Diaz, Helen K. Rosenthal, Brad S. Lander, Diana I. Ayala, Karen Koslowitz, Eric Dinowitz, Farah N. Louis, Vanessa L. Gibson, (by request of the Queens Borough President)
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/31/2021	*	City Council	Filed (End of Session)
4/10/2019	*	Committee on Hospitals	Laid Over by Committee
4/10/2019	*	Committee on Hospitals	Hearing Held by Committee
4/10/2019	*	Committee on General Welfare	Laid Over by Committee
4/10/2019	*	Committee on General Welfare	Hearing Held by Committee
10/17/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
10/17/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1161

By Council Members Levin, the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams), Adams, Brannan, Reynoso, Ampry-Samuel, D. Diaz, Rosenthal, Lander, Ayala, Koslowitz, Dinowitz, Louis and Gibson (by request of the Queens Borough President)

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to enhanced reporting on the child welfare system
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Section 21-902 of the administrative code of the city of New York as added by local law 20 of 2006 is amended to read as follows:
Section 21-902. Quarterly Reports Regarding Child Welfare System. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Allegation. The term "allegation" means an accusation of any of the following: educational neglect, lack of medical care, inadequate food/clothing/shelter, inadequate guardianship, lack of supervision, malnutrition, failure to thrive, emotional neglect, inappropriate isolation/restraint, welling/discoloration/sprains, abandonment, child's marijuana use, child's drug use other than marijuana, child's alcohol use, parent's marijuana misuse, parent's alcohol misuse, parent's drug misuse other than marijuana, inappropriate custodial conduct, burns, scalding, choking/twisting/shaking, excessive corporal punishment, DOA/fatality, fractures, internal injuries, lacerations/bruises/welts, poisoning/noxious substances and sexual abuse, or other.
Indicated. The term "indicated" means an investigative finding that there is sufficient proof of the abuse or neglect of a child.
Preventive services. The term "preventive services" means supportive and rehabilitative services provided, in accordance with title four of the social services law, to children and their families for the purposes of: averting an impairment or disruption of a family which will or could result in the placement of a child in foster care; enabling a c...