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                                   6420
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 6, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. McDONALD, GOODELL -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including  phar-
   macists in the list of persons and officials required  to report child
   abuse
 
   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;
 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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10699-01-3
              

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 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; PHARMACIST; employ-
 ee  of  a  publicly-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 employees 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.