Bill Text: NY A06662 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Enacts the child abuse reporting expansion act; relates to making clergy members required reporters of child abuse or mistreatment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-20 - REFERRED TO RULES [A06662 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06662-Amended.html
Bill Title: Enacts the child abuse reporting expansion act; relates to making clergy members required reporters of child abuse or mistreatment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-20 - REFERRED TO RULES [A06662 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06662-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6662--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALLACE, SIMOTAS, D'URSO, BURKE, SIMON, STIRPE, BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee on Children and Families in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing the "child abuse reporting expansion act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "child 2 abuse reporting expansion act". 3 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social 4 services law, as amended by section 7 of part C of chapter 57 of the 5 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 6 (a) The following persons and officials are required to report or 7 cause a report to be made in accordance with this title when they have 8 reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them in their 9 professional or official capacity is an abused or maltreated child, or 10 when they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused or 11 maltreated child where the parent, guardian, custodian [or], other 12 person legally responsible for such child comes before them in their 13 professional or official capacity and states from personal knowledge 14 facts, conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the 15 child an abused or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician 16 assistant; surgeon; medical examiner; coroner; dentist; dental hygien- 17 ist; osteopath; optometrist; chiropractor; podiatrist; resident; intern; 18 psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni- 19 cian; licensed creative arts therapist; licensed marriage and family 20 therapist; licensed mental health counselor; licensed psychoanalyst; 21 licensed behavior analyst; certified behavior analyst assistant; hospi- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10180-06-0A. 6662--A 2 1 tal personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care or treatment 2 of persons; a Christian Science practitioner; clergy member or other 3 minister of any religion; school official, which includes but is not 4 limited to school teacher, school guidance counselor, school psychol- 5 ogist, school social worker, school nurse, school administrator or other 6 school personnel required to hold a teaching or administrative license 7 or certificate; full or part-time compensated school employee required 8 to hold a temporary coaching license or professional coaching certif- 9 icate; social services worker; employee of a publicly-funded emergency 10 shelter for families with children; director of a children's overnight 11 camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp, as such camps are 12 defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of the public health law; 13 day care center worker; school-age child care worker; provider of family 14 or group family day care; employee or volunteer in a residential care 15 facility for children that is licensed, certified or operated by the 16 office of children and family services; or any other child care or 17 foster care worker; mental health professional; substance abuse counse- 18 lor; alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed by the office of 19 alcoholism and substance abuse services; employees, who are expected to 20 have regular and substantial contact with children, of a health home or 21 health home care management agency contracting with a health home as 22 designated by the department of health and authorized under section 23 three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter or such employees who provide 24 home and community based services under a demonstration program pursuant 25 to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social security act who 26 are expected to have regular and substantial contact with children; 27 peace officer; police officer; district attorney or assistant district 28 attorney; investigator employed in the office of a district attorney; or 29 other law enforcement official. 30 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.