Bill Text: NY A09568 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring counselors to have certain courses of study or equivalent on-the-job experience including on providing trauma-informed, patient-centered care, treating co-occurring disorders and sensitivity training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-24 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [A09568 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09568-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9568

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 24, 2020
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        Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to approved courses
          of study or equivalent on-the-job experience for counselors

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  1  of  subdivision (d) of section 19.07 of the
     2  mental hygiene law, as amended by section 5 of part I of chapter  58  of
     3  the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  The  office shall establish minimum qualifications for counselors
     5  in all phases of delivery of services to persons and their families  who
     6  are  suffering  from  alcohol  and/or  substance  abuse  and/or chemical
     7  dependence and/or compulsive gambling that shall  include,  but  not  be
     8  limited  to,  completion  of  approved  courses  of  study or equivalent
     9  on-the-job experience  in  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse  counseling
    10  and/or counseling of compulsive gambling. Such approved courses of study
    11  or  equivalent on-the-job experience shall include: providing trauma-in-
    12  formed, patient-centered  care;  treating  co-occurring  disorders;  and
    13  sensitivity training. Such courses shall be updated as needed to reflect
    14  evolving  best  practices  in  harm  reduction,  treatment and long-term
    15  recovery. For the purposes of this paragraph, sensitivity training shall
    16  mean a form of training with the goal of making  people  more  aware  of
    17  their own prejudices and more sensitive to others.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00847-03-0