Senate Bill S3221

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to requirements for licensure of certain mental health practitioners and providing such mental health practitioners authority to give diagnosis

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S3221 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5751
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Ed L, generally
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8757
2019-2020: A4383
2023-2024: S4463

2021-S3221 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requirements for licensure of mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists and providing mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists authority to give diagnosis.

2021-S3221 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3221 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3221
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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  requirements  for
   licensure of certain mental health practitioners and providing certain
   mental health practitioners authority to give diagnosis

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 8401 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3.  "DIAGNOSIS"  MEANS THE PROCESS OF DISTINGUISHING, BEYOND A GENERAL
 ASSESSMENT, BETWEEN SIMILAR MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIORAL, DEVELOPMENTAL
 AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS, IMPAIRMENTS AND DISABILITIES WITHIN A PSYCHOSO-
 CIAL FRAMEWORK ON THE BASIS OF THEIR SIMILAR AND UNIQUE  CHARACTERISTICS
 CONSISTENT WITH ACCEPTED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS.
   §  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 8402 of the education law, as added by
 chapter 676 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Practice of mental health counseling and use of the titles  "mental
 health  counselor"  and  "licensed mental health counselor".  (A) Only a
 person licensed or exempt  under  this  article  shall  practice  mental
 health  counseling  or  use  the title "mental health counselor". Only a
 person licensed under this article shall use the title "licensed  mental
 health  counselor"  or  any  other designation tending to imply that the
 person is licensed to practice mental health counseling.
   (B) MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS WHO HAVE OBTAINED THE DIAGNOSIS PRIVILEGE
 SET FORTH IN SECTION EIGHTY-FOUR HUNDRED TWO-A OF THIS ARTICLE MAY DIAG-
 NOSE MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIORAL, ADDICTIVE AND  DEVELOPMENTAL  DISOR-
 DERS  AND DISABILITIES AND OF THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF ILLNESS, INJU-
 RY,  DISABILITY  AND  IMPAIRMENT  UNDERTAKEN   WITHIN   A   PSYCHOSOCIAL
 FRAMEWORK.
   §  3.  Paragraphs  (b) and (c) of subdivision 3 of section 8402 of the
 education law, paragraph (b) as added by chapter 676 of the laws of 2002
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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