STATE OF NEW YORK
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6662--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 14, 2019
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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.
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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.