{"id":80216,"date":"2025-12-24T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:16:05","slug":"some-push-n-y-bill-to-protect-children-in-custody-battles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80216\/","title":{"rendered":"Some push N.Y. bill to protect children in custody battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates are pushing for Kyra\u2019s Law to be included in Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s executive budget proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation is named for 2-year-old Kyra Franchetti, whose father shot her in the back while she slept during a court-ordered unsupervised visit in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, the law would require the court to prioritize a child&#8217;s life and safety during custody proceedings or when making decisions about visitation. It would also mandate specific domestic violence, child abuse and child-sex abuse training for judges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2025\/06\/09\/jacqueline-franchetti-discusses-state-law-inspired-by-her-daughter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The bill made it through the state Senate last year but stalled in the Assembly.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kyra\u2019s mother, Jacqueline, told Spectrum News 1 that she wants to avoid that outcome by having the legislation included in the budget instead of the usual legislative process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go through the budget process, the budget goes long, and then there\u2019s a mad dash to try to pass things. Why not just put it in now?&#8221; Franchetti said. &#8220;New Yorkers need this now. New York children cannot wait one more day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State Senate sponsor James Skoufis said he doesn\u2019t know if the governor will ultimately include the bill, but he would welcome it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy expectation would be if the executive puts it in her budget. The Senate would come to the negotiating table in a supportive role and be very favorable to keeping it included in the final budget, so we will see soon enough but it would be wonderful,\u201d Skoufis, a Democrat representing parts of the Hudson Valley, said.<\/p>\n<p>If the bill is not included, momentum is expected to continue to pass it through the Legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advocates are pushing for Kyra\u2019s Law to be included in Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s executive budget proposal. The legislation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[109,116,128,19662,257,9,24,49,12,112,63,87,4281,129,131,130,27],"class_list":["post-80216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-bronx","tag-capital-tonight-staff","tag-central-ny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-state-budget","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}