Bill Text: NY S00652 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to staff qualifications for supervisory and non-supervisory child protective services workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S00652 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00652-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           652
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to staff qualifica-
          tions for non-supervisory and supervisory  child  protective  services
          workers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 4 of section  421  of
     2  the  social  services law, paragraph (a) as amended and paragraph (b) as
     3  added by chapter 525 of the  laws  of  2006,  are  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    (a)  after  consultation  with  the  local  child protective services,
     6  promulgate regulations relating to staff qualifications for non-supervi-
     7  sory child protective services workers, prescribing  [any]  at  least  a
     8  baccalaureate  or  equivalent college degree in social work, psychology,
     9  counseling and/or relevant [human service] experience  in  law  enforce-
    10  ment,  counseling  or  work  with  mental health or cognitively impaired
    11  persons and children as requirements. Such requirements shall not  apply
    12  to persons currently employed by such child protective services who were
    13  hired  before [January first, nineteen hundred eighty-six] the effective
    14  date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand  nineteen  that  amended
    15  this paragraph.
    16    (b)  after  consultation  with  the  local  child protective services,
    17  promulgate  regulations  relating  to  staff  qualifications  for  those
    18  assigned  to  be  supervisors of child protective services[, prescribing
    19  any baccalaureate or equivalent college  degree  and/or  relevant  human
    20  services experience as requirements]. Provided, however, that such regu-
    21  lations shall at a minimum provide that those assigned to be supervisors
    22  of  child  protective  services have [either a baccalaureate] at least a
    23  master's degree [or three] in social work, psychology, counseling and/or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 652                              2
     1  ten years of relevant work experience in [a human  services  field]  law
     2  enforcement,  counseling  or  work  with  mental  health  or cognitively
     3  impaired persons and children.   Such requirements shall  not  apply  to
     4  persons  currently assigned to be a child protective services supervisor
     5  who were hired before [December first, two thousand six]  the  effective
     6  date  of  the  chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen that amended
     7  this paragraph.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.