Bill Text: NY A00314 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A00314 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00314-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           314

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        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:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social
     2  services  law,  as  amended  by section 7 of part C of chapter 57 of the
     3  laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) The following persons and officials  are  required  to  report  or
     5  cause  a  report to be made in accordance with this title when they have
     6  reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming  before  them  in  their
     7  professional  or  official capacity is an abused or maltreated child, or
     8  when they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused  or
     9  maltreated  child  where the parent, guardian, custodian or other person
    10  legally responsible for such child comes before them  in  their  profes-
    11  sional  or  official  capacity and states from personal knowledge facts,
    12  conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the child an
    13  abused or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician  assist-
    14  ant;  surgeon;  medical  examiner;  coroner;  dentist; dental hygienist;
    15  osteopath;  optometrist;  chiropractor;  podiatrist;  resident;  intern;
    16  psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni-
    17  cian;  licensed  creative  arts  therapist; licensed marriage and family
    18  therapist; licensed mental  health  counselor;  licensed  psychoanalyst;
    19  licensed  behavior analyst; certified behavior analyst assistant; hospi-
    20  tal personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care  or  treatment
    21  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.
                                                                   LBD02208-01-3
        A. 314                              2

     1  includes but is not limited to school teacher, school  guidance  counse-
     2  lor,  school  psychologist,  school  social worker, school nurse, school
     3  administrator or other school personnel required to hold a  teaching  or
     4  administrative  license  or  certificate;  full or part-time compensated
     5  school employee required to hold a temporary coaching license or profes-
     6  sional coaching certificate; social services worker; employee of a publ-
     7  icly-funded emergency shelter for families with children; director of  a
     8  children's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp,
     9  as  such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of the
    10  public health law; day care center worker; school-age child care worker;
    11  provider of family or group family day care; employee or volunteer in  a
    12  residential  care  facility  for children that is licensed, certified or
    13  operated by the office of children and family  services;  or  any  other
    14  child  care or foster care worker; mental health professional; substance
    15  abuse counselor; alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed  by  the
    16  office  of  alcoholism  and substance abuse services; employees, who are
    17  expected to have regular and substantial contact  with  children,  of  a
    18  health  home  or  health  home care management agency contracting with a
    19  health home as designated by the department  of  health  and  authorized
    20  under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter or such employ-
    21  ees  who provide home and community based services under a demonstration
    22  program pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social
    23  security act who are expected to have regular  and  substantial  contact
    24  with  children;  peace  officer;  police  officer;  district attorney or
    25  assistant district attorney; investigator employed in the  office  of  a
    26  district attorney; or other law enforcement official; or any employee of
    27  a  tier  II facility or any other shelter providing temporary housing to
    28  persons under the age of eighteen.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.