Bill Text: NY A04191 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires mental health practitioners licensed under article 163 of the education law, including, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, creative arts therapists or psychoanalysts to report substantial risk or threat of harm.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to mental health [A04191 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A04191-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4191
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 1, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to certain reporting
by mental health practitioners
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 9.46 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (a) For purposes of this section, the term "mental health profes-
5 sional" shall include a physician, psychologist, registered nurse [or],
6 licensed clinical social worker OR ANY MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER
7 LICENSED UNDER ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
9 manner as chapter 1 of the laws of 2013 takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08143-01-3
