Bill Text: NY S04887 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4887 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows a person with a master's of social work degree who meets certain requirements to file to be licensed within one year after the effective date of this act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S04887 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04887-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4887
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  practice  of
          licensed social workers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 7707  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  230  of  the  laws  of 2004, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. Any person who possesses a master's of social work  degree  on  the
     5  effective  date  of  this  section,  who has five years of post-graduate
     6  social work employment and meets the requirements for a license pursuant
     7  to this article, except for examination, and who files with the  depart-
     8  ment within one year [of] after the effective date of [this section] the
     9  chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen which amended this subdivi-
    10  sion, shall be licensed as a licensed master social worker.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04517-01-9