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Senate Bill S6999

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"

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2025-S6999 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A780
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §7704, Ed L

2025-S6999 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"; provides that for licensure as a clinical social worker, an applicant may satisfy the experience requirements under supervision of a mental health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article one hundred sixty-three of the education law.

2025-S6999 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6999 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6999
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting  the  "Super-
   vising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Thera-
   py (SUPPORT) act"

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the  "Supervis-
 ing  Upcoming  Professionals  for  Practice in Official Roles in Therapy
 (SUPPORT) act".
   § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 7704 of  the  education
 law,  as  amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (c) Experience: have at least three years full-time  supervised  post-
 graduate  clinical  social  work experience in diagnosis, psychotherapy,
 and assessment-based  treatment  plans,  or  its  part-time  equivalent,
 obtained  over  a  continuous  period not to exceed six years, under the
 supervision, satisfactory  to  the  department,  of  a  psychiatrist,  a
 licensed  psychologist,  [or]  a  licensed  clinical  social worker in a
 facility setting or other supervised settings approved by the department
 OR A MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER WHO HAS BEEN GRANTED  THE  PRIVILEGE  TO
 DIAGNOSE  AND DEVELOP ASSESSMENT-BASED TREATMENT PLANS UNDER ARTICLE ONE
 HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THIS TITLE. Satisfactory experience  obtained  in
 an  entity operating under a waiver issued by the department pursuant to
 section sixty-five hundred three-a of this title may be accepted by  the
 department,  notwithstanding that such experience may have been obtained
 prior to the effective date of such section sixty-five  hundred  three-a
 and/or prior to the entity having obtained a waiver. The department may,
 for  good  cause shown, accept satisfactory experience that was obtained
 in a setting that would have been eligible for a waiver  but  which  has
 not  obtained  a  waiver  from  the  department  or  experience that was
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00963-01-5

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