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Assembly Bill A9560A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "building retention and internship-to-degree graduate employment (BRIDGE) act"

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2025-A9560 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9124
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §7705, Ed L

2025-A9560 - Summary

Enacts the "building retention and internship-to-degree graduate employment (BRIDGE) act"; provides limited work permits for students in a master of social work program; establishes policies and procedures for such work permit.

2025-A9560 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9560
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing limited work
   permits to certain graduate social work students
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the  "building  retention  and  internship-to-degree graduate employment
 (BRIDGE) act".
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 7705 of the education law is  renumbered
 subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows:
   2. (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, AN APPLI-
 CANT  WHO  HAS  COMPLETED AT LEAST FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY HOURS OF THE FIELD
 WORK COMPONENT IN A MASTER OF SOCIAL  WORK  PROGRAM  REGISTERED  BY  THE
 DEPARTMENT MAY APPLY FOR A LIMITED PERMIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SUBDI-
 VISION.
   (B) SUCH LIMITED PERMIT SHALL:
   (I)  BE  ISSUED  UPON  SUBMISSION  OF AN APPLICATION PRESCRIBED BY THE
 DEPARTMENT;
   (II) REQUIRE CERTIFICATION,  ON  SUCH  APPLICATION,  BY  A  SUPERVISOR
 LICENSED AND QUALIFIED UNDER THIS ARTICLE, ATTESTING THAT THE SUPERVISOR
 AGREES TO OVERSEE THE PERMITTEE AND AUTHORIZES THE PERMITTEE TO CONTINUE
 PROVIDING  CARE WITHIN THE SUPERVISOR'S PRACTICE OR AGENCY UPON ISSUANCE
 OF THE LIMITED PERMIT;
   (III) BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY  UPON  THE  APPLICANT'S  GRADUATION
 FROM THE MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM; AND
   (IV) AUTHORIZE THE PERMITTEE TO PRACTICE ONLY UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
 SUCH  SUPERVISOR  AND  ONLY  IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S REGU-
 LATIONS.
   (C) LIMITED PERMITS ISSUED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE  VALID  FOR
 THE  SAME  PERIOD  AS A LIMITED PERMIT ISSUED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

2025-A9560A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9124
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §7705, Ed L

2025-A9560A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "building retention and internship-to-degree graduate employment (BRIDGE) act"; provides limited work permits for students in a master of social work program; establishes policies and procedures for such work permit.

2025-A9560A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9560--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Higher  Education  --  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "building
   retention and internship-to-degree graduate employment (BRIDGE) act"

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "building retention  and  internship-to-degree  graduate  employment
 (BRIDGE) act".
   §  2. Subdivision 2 of section 7705 of the education law is renumbered
 subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows:
   2. (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, AN APPLI-
 CANT WHO HAS COMPLETED AT LEAST FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY HOURS  OF  THE  FIELD
 WORK  COMPONENT  IN  A  MASTER  OF SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM REGISTERED BY THE
 DEPARTMENT MAY APPLY  FOR  A  LIMITED  PERMIT  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   (B) SUCH LIMITED PERMIT SHALL:
   (I)  BE  ISSUED  UPON  SUBMISSION  OF AN APPLICATION PRESCRIBED BY THE
 DEPARTMENT;
   (II) REQUIRE CERTIFICATION,  ON  SUCH  APPLICATION,  BY  A  SUPERVISOR
 LICENSED AND QUALIFIED UNDER THIS ARTICLE, ATTESTING THAT THE SUPERVISOR
 AGREES TO OVERSEE THE PERMITTEE AND AUTHORIZES THE PERMITTEE TO CONTINUE
 PROVIDING  CARE WITHIN THE SUPERVISOR'S PRACTICE OR AGENCY UPON ISSUANCE
 OF THE LIMITED PERMIT;
   (III) BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY  UPON  THE  APPLICANT'S  GRADUATION
 FROM THE MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM; AND
   (IV) AUTHORIZE THE PERMITTEE TO PRACTICE ONLY UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
 SUCH  SUPERVISOR  AND  ONLY  IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S REGU-
 LATIONS.
   (C) LIMITED PERMITS ISSUED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE  VALID  FOR
 THE  SAME  PERIOD  AS A LIMITED PERMIT ISSUED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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