Senate Bill S4969

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to required training for child protective services workers

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families 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-S4969 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2158
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §421, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8048, A11030
2023-2024: S4645, A1850

2021-S4969 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires training in developmental disability awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity and implicit bias for child protective services workers.

2021-S4969 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4969 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4969
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  child
   protective services workers to receive training in developmental disa-
   bility  awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity
   and implicit bias
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) and of subdivision 5 of section 421
 of the social services law, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter  525  of
 the  laws of 2006, paragraph (c) as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of
 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   (b) promulgate regulations setting forth training  requirements  which
 shall  specify,  among  other  things, that all persons hired by a child
 protective service on or after April first, nineteen hundred  eighty-six
 shall  have satisfactorily completed a course approved by the department
 within the first three months of  employment,  in  the  fundamentals  of
 child  protection.  Such course shall include at least basic training in
 the principles and techniques of investigations, including relationships
 with other investigative bodies, legal issues in child  protection,  and
 methods  of remediation, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Such regu-
 lations shall also specify that all persons employed by a child  protec-
 tive service [on or after December first, two thousand six] shall satis-
 factorily  complete  [six] EIGHT hours of annual [in service] IN-SERVICE
 training, beginning in their second year of employment. Such annual  [in
 service]  IN-SERVICE  training  shall  include,  but  is not limited to,
 review of the protocols for identification and  investigation  of  child
 abuse  and  maltreatment,  any  developments  in  legal,  treatment  and
 prevention issues in child protection,  [and]  review  and  analysis  of
 field  experiences  of  child protective services workers, DEVELOPMENTAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04956-01-1
              

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