Assembly Bill A6230A

                            
 
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                                  6230--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 1, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- 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 expanding the
   persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected  child  abuse  to
   include  employees,  volunteers,  or  agents  of  any corporate entity
   having an agreement with a municipality as a tier II facility  or  any
   other  shelter providing temporary housing to persons under the age of
   18
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social
 services  law,  as  amended  by section 7 of part C of chapter 57 of the
 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) The following persons and officials  are  required  to  report  or
 cause  a  report to be made in accordance with this title when they have
 reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming  before  them  in  their
 professional  or  official capacity is an abused or maltreated child, or
 when they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused  or
 maltreated  child  where the parent, guardian, custodian or other person
 legally responsible for such child comes before them  in  their  profes-
 sional  or  official  capacity and states from personal knowledge facts,
 conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the child an
 abused or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician  assist-
 ant;  surgeon;  medical  examiner;  coroner;  dentist; dental hygienist;
 osteopath;  optometrist;  chiropractor;  podiatrist;  resident;  intern;
 psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni-
 cian;  licensed  creative  arts  therapist; licensed marriage and family
 therapist; licensed mental  health  counselor;  licensed  psychoanalyst;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD06164-03-8

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 licensed  behavior analyst; certified behavior analyst assistant; hospi-
 tal personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care  or  treatment
 of  persons;  a  Christian  Science practitioner; school official, which
 includes  but  is not limited to school teacher, school guidance counse-
 lor, school psychologist, school social  worker,  school  nurse,  school
 administrator  or  other school personnel required to hold a teaching or
 administrative license or certificate;  full  or  part-time  compensated
 school employee required to hold a temporary coaching license or profes-
 sional coaching certificate; social services worker; employee of a publ-
 icly-funded  emergency shelter for families with children; director of a
 children's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp,
 as such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of  the
 public health law; day care center worker; school-age child care worker;
 provider  of family or group family day care; employee or volunteer in a
 residential care facility for children that is  licensed,  certified  or
 operated  by  the  office  of children and family services; or any other
 child care or foster care worker; mental health professional;  substance
 abuse  counselor;  alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed by the
 office of alcoholism and substance abuse services;  employees,  who  are
 expected  to  have  regular  and substantial contact with children, of a
 health home or health home care management  agency  contracting  with  a
 health  home  as  designated  by the department of health and authorized
 under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter or such employ-
 ees who provide home and community based services under a  demonstration
 program pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social
 security  act  who  are expected to have regular and substantial contact
 with children; peace  officer;  police  officer;  district  attorney  or
 assistant  district  attorney;  investigator employed in the office of a
 district attorney; or other law enforcement official; OR ANY EMPLOYEE OF
 A TIER II FACILITY OR ANY OTHER SHELTER PROVIDING TEMPORARY  HOUSING  TO
 PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.