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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Senate Bill S6999
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 11th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) 55th Senate District
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
BILL NUMBER: S6999 SPONSOR: STAVISKY TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "Super- vising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act" PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To allow students working to obtain their license of clinical social work (LCSW) to be supervised by any licensed mental health practitioner authorized to formally diagnose patients and create assesement-based treatment plans SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill clarifies that this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Offi- cial Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act".
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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