Assembly Bill A6380

                             
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                                   6380
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Children and Families
 
 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;
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  413  of  the  social
 services  law,  as  amended  by chapter 733 of the   laws of   2023,  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;
 athletic trainer; psychologist; registered nurse; social  worker;  emer-
 gency  medical  technician;  licensed  creative arts therapist; licensed
 marriage  and  family  therapist;  licensed  mental  health   counselor;
 licensed  psychoanalyst;  licensed  behavior analyst; certified behavior
 analyst assistant; hospital personnel engaged in the admission, examina-
 tion, care or treatment of persons; a  Christian  Science  practitioner;
 school  official,  which  includes but is not limited to school teacher,
 school guidance counselor, 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  professional  coaching certificate; social services worker;
 employee of a publicly-funded emergency shelter for families with  chil-
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 dren;  director of a children's overnight camp, summer day camp or trav-
 eling 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;
 OR  ANY  EMPLOYEE  OF  A TIER II FACILITY OR ANY OTHER SHELTER PROVIDING
 TEMPORARY  HOUSING  TO PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the
 social services law made by section two of this act shall take effect on
 the same date and in the same manner as section 12 of chapter 733 of the
 laws of 2023 takes effect.