Bill Text: NY A10880 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires licensed mental health counselors, psychologists, other certified or licensed counseling professionals and emergency services personnel to complete training in suicide risk assessment and intervention.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-24 - referred to higher education [A10880 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10880-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10880

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Frontus) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, the  executive  law  and  the  public
          health  law,  in  relation to requiring licensed mental health counse-
          lors, psychologists, other certified or  licensed  counseling  profes-
          sionals  and  emergency  services  personnel  to  complete training in
          suicide risk assessment and intervention

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  7603 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
     3    (4-a) Training: have completed a minimum of six hours of coursework or
     4  applied experience under supervision  in  suicide  risk  assessment  and
     5  intervention and a minimum of three hours of continuing education relat-
     6  ing to suicide risk assessment and intervention;
     7    §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 7704 of the education law is amended by
     8  adding a new paragraph (d-1) to read as follows:
     9    (d-1) Training: have completed a minimum of six hours of coursework or
    10  applied experience under supervision  in  suicide  risk  assessment  and
    11  intervention and a minimum of three hours of continuing education relat-
    12  ing to suicide risk assessment and intervention;
    13    §  3. Subdivision 2 of section 7704 of the education law is amended by
    14  adding a new paragraph (d-1) to read as follows:
    15    (d-1) Training: have completed a minimum of six hours of coursework or
    16  applied experience under supervision  in  suicide  risk  assessment  and
    17  intervention and a minimum of three hours of continuing education relat-
    18  ing to suicide risk assessment and intervention;
    19    §  4.  Paragraphs  (h)  and (i) of subdivision 2 of section 158 of the
    20  executive law, as amended by section 28 of part B of chapter 56  of  the
    21  laws  of  2010,  are amended and a new paragraph (j) is added to read as
    22  follows:
    23    (h) Exemptions from particular provisions of this article in the  case
    24  of  any  county, city, town, village or fire district, if in the opinion
    25  of the state fire administrator the standards of  fire  training  estab-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  lished  and  maintained  by  such  county,  city,  town, village or fire
     2  district are equal to or higher than those established pursuant to  this
     3  article;  or revocation in whole or in part of such exemption, if in his
     4  or her opinion the standards of fire training established and maintained
     5  by  such  county,  city,  town,  village or fire district are lower than
     6  those established pursuant to this article; [and]
     7    (i) Education, health and physical fitness requirements for  eligibil-
     8  ity  of  persons for provisional or permanent appointment in the compet-
     9  itive class of the civil service as fire fighters as it deems  necessary
    10  and proper for the efficient performance of such duties; and
    11    (j)  The  requirements  for having completed a minimum of six hours of
    12  coursework or applied  experience  under  supervision  in  suicide  risk
    13  assessment  and  intervention and a minimum of three hours of continuing
    14  education relating to suicide risk assessment and intervention.
    15    § 5. Subdivision 1 of section 840 of the executive law is  amended  by
    16  adding a new paragraph (f-1) to read as follows:
    17    (f-1)  The requirements for having completed a minimum of six hours of
    18  coursework or applied  experience  under  supervision  in  suicide  risk
    19  assessment  and  intervention and a minimum of three hours of continuing
    20  education relating to suicide risk assessment and intervention;
    21    § 6. Section 3052 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
    22  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    23    6. The department is authorized, either directly or through contractu-
    24  al  arrangement,  to  develop requirements for a minimum of six hours of
    25  coursework or applied  experience  under  supervision  in  suicide  risk
    26  assessment  and  intervention and a minimum of three hours of continuing
    27  education relating to suicide risk assessment and intervention.
    28    § 7. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.