Bill Text: NY S02120 | 2015-2016 | 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 4-0)

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

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 2120                                                  A. 3027
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                   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
       IN  ASSEMBLY  --  Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and
         referred 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  FIFTEEN  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-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01558-01-5
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    1  lations shall at a minimum provide that those assigned to be supervisors
    2  of  child  protective  services have [either a baccalaureate] AT LEAST A
    3  MASTER'S degree [or three] IN SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHOLOGY, COUNSELING AND/OR
    4  TEN  years  of  relevant work experience in [a human services field] LAW
    5  ENFORCEMENT, COUNSELING  OR  WORK  WITH  MENTAL  HEALTH  OR  COGNITIVELY
    6  IMPAIRED  PERSONS  AND  CHILDREN.   Such requirements shall not apply to
    7  persons currently assigned to be a child protective services  supervisor
    8  who  were  hired before [December first, two thousand six] THE EFFECTIVE
    9  DATE OF THE CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN  THAT  AMENDED
   10  THIS PARAGRAPH.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.