Bill Text: NY S02120 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - PRINT NUMBER 2120A [S02120 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02120-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 2120--A                                            A. 3027--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    January 21, 2015
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        IN  SENATE  -- Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, BRESLIN, DILAN, ESPAILLAT --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee
          on  Children  and Families in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        IN  ASSEMBLY  --  Introduced  by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, BLAKE, WALKER,
          SANTABARBARA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,  DAVILA,  DUPREY,
          HOOPER,  RIVERA, SCHIMEL -- 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 committee
        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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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