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NY S04763
Bill
Status
6/6/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jamaal Bailey
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AI Summary
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Expands parental notification requirements for arrests to include youth up to age 19 (previously covered only juvenile offenders and adolescent offenders), requiring police to immediately notify parents or guardians of the arrest and detention location
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Creates an exception allowing officers to skip parental notification when the youth is not a juvenile offender and notification would endanger the youth's health or safety
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Requires officers to make "every reasonable effort" to contact an adult family member or unrelated adult over age 25 when parental notification is waived due to safety concerns
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Expands the definition of "sexually exploited child" under social services law from persons under 18 to persons under age 19
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Takes effect on the first of November following enactment and may be cited as the "Family Notification and Protection Act"
Legislative Description
Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants upon a youth; provides for the police officer to make a reasonable effort to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth or with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety of such youth; amends provisions relating to sexually exploited children to include persons under the age of nineteen.
Last Action
REFERRED TO CODES
1/7/2026