Bill Text: NY A10737 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to including certain employees or volunteers of youth organizations whose primary purpose is to interact with youth through activities, events or other one on one group gatherings as mandated reporters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-08 - referred to children and families [A10737 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10737-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10737

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Galef) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  including
          certain  employees  or  volunteers  of youth organizations as mandated
          reporters

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social
     2  services  law,  as  amended  by section 7 of part C of chapter 57 of the
     3  laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) The following persons and officials  are  required  to  report  or
     5  cause  a  report to be made in accordance with this title when they have
     6  reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming  before  them  in  their
     7  professional  or  official capacity is an abused or maltreated child, or
     8  when they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused  or
     9  maltreated  child  where the parent, guardian, custodian or other person
    10  legally responsible for such child comes before them  in  their  profes-
    11  sional  or  official  capacity and states from personal knowledge facts,
    12  conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the child an
    13  abused or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician  assist-
    14  ant;  surgeon;  medical  examiner;  coroner;  dentist; dental hygienist;
    15  osteopath;  optometrist;  chiropractor;  podiatrist;  resident;  intern;
    16  psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni-
    17  cian;  licensed  creative  arts  therapist; licensed marriage and family
    18  therapist; licensed mental  health  counselor;  licensed  psychoanalyst;
    19  licensed  behavior analyst; certified behavior analyst assistant; hospi-
    20  tal personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care  or  treatment
    21  of  persons;  a  Christian  Science practitioner; school official, which
    22  includes but is not limited to school teacher, school  guidance  counse-
    23  lor,  school  psychologist,  school  social worker, school nurse, school
    24  administrator or other school personnel required to hold a  teaching  or
    25  administrative  license  or  certificate;  full or part-time compensated
    26  school employee required to hold a temporary coaching license or profes-
    27  sional coaching certificate; social services worker; employee of a publ-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16837-01-0
        A. 10737                            2

     1  icly-funded emergency shelter for families with children; director of  a
     2  children's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp,
     3  as  such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of the
     4  public health law; employee or volunteer of an organization whose prima-
     5  ry purpose is to interact with youth through activities, events or other
     6  one  on  one  or group gatherings, where such organization has or should
     7  have policies which require such employee or volunteer to report  either
     8  to  the  organization  or to a local authority about any suspected child
     9  maltreatment or child abuse; day care center  worker;  school-age  child
    10  care  worker;  provider  of family or group family day care; employee or
    11  volunteer in a residential care facility for children that is  licensed,
    12  certified  or operated by the office of children and family services; or
    13  any other child care or foster care worker; mental health  professional;
    14  substance  abuse  counselor;  alcoholism  counselor; all persons creden-
    15  tialed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services; employ-
    16  ees, who are expected to have regular and substantial contact with chil-
    17  dren, of a health home or health home care management agency contracting
    18  with a health home as designated by the department of health and author-
    19  ized under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this  chapter  or  such
    20  employees  who  provide home and community based services under a demon-
    21  stration program pursuant to  section  eleven  hundred  fifteen  of  the
    22  federal  social  security  act  who  are  expected  to  have regular and
    23  substantial  contact  with  children;  peace  officer;  police  officer;
    24  district  attorney or assistant district attorney; investigator employed
    25  in the office of a district attorney; or other law enforcement official.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.