Bill Text: NY A01945 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires physicians, chiropractors, dentists, registered nurses, podiatrists, optometrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and dental hygienists to have completed one hour of coursework or training regarding the identification and reporting of elderly abuse prior to the renewal of a license, registration or limited permit; provides procedures and provides for exemptions when no need therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to higher education [A01945 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01945-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  health  care  practi-
         tioner professional education in the area of elderly abuse
         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 3 of section 6507 of the  educa-
    2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 356 of the laws of 2006, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    a. Establish standards for preprofessional and professional education,
    5  experience and licensing examinations as required to implement the arti-
    6  cle for each profession. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
    7  commissioner shall establish standards requiring that all persons apply-
    8  ing, on or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-one,  initially,
    9  or for the renewal of, a license, registration or limited permit to be a
   10  physician,  chiropractor, dentist, registered nurse, podiatrist, optome-
   11  trist,  psychiatrist,  psychologist,  licensed  master  social   worker,
   12  licensed  clinical  social  worker,  licensed  creative  arts therapist,
   13  licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed mental  health  counse-
   14  lor,  licensed  psychoanalyst, or dental hygienist shall, in addition to
   15  all the other licensure,  certification  or  permit  requirements,  have
   16  completed  [two]  THREE  hours  of  coursework or training regarding the
   17  identification and reporting of child AND ELDER abuse and  maltreatment.
   18  The  coursework  or  training  shall  be obtained from an institution or
   19  provider which has been approved  by  the  department  to  provide  such
   20  coursework  or  training.  [The] TWO HOURS OF THE coursework or training
   21  shall include information regarding the physical and behavioral  indica-
   22  tors  of  child  abuse  and  maltreatment  and  the  statutory reporting
   23  requirements set out in sections  four  hundred  thirteen  through  four
   24  hundred twenty of the social services law, including but not limited to,
   25  when  and  how a report must be made, what other actions the reporter is
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  mandated or authorized to take, the legal  protections  afforded  repor-
    2  ters,  and  the  consequences  for  failing to report.   ONE HOUR OF THE
    3  COURSEWORK OR TRAINING SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, INFORMATION
    4  REGARDING  THE  PHYSICAL  AND  BEHAVIORAL  INDICATORS OF ELDER ABUSE AND
    5  MALTREATMENT, AND WHEN AND HOW A REPORT OF ELDER ABUSE AND  MALTREATMENT
    6  MAY  BE  MADE, WHAT OTHER ACTIONS THE REPORTER IS MANDATED OR AUTHORIZED
    7  TO TAKE, THE LEGAL PROTECTIONS AFFORDED REPORTERS, AND THE CONSEQUENCES,
    8  IF ANY, FOR FAILING TO REPORT.   FOR THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH,
    9  "ELDER  ABUSE  AND  MALTREATMENT"  MEANS  PHYSICAL  ABUSE, SEXUAL ABUSE,
   10  EMOTIONAL ABUSE, ACTIVE NEGLECT, PASSIVE NEGLECT  OR  SELF  NEGLECT,  AS
   11  SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED SEVEN-
   12  TY-THREE  OF  THE  SOCIAL SERVICES LAW, COMMITTED AGAINST A PERSON SIXTY
   13  YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. Such coursework  or  training  may  also  include
   14  information  regarding  the  physical  and  behavioral indicators of the
   15  abuse of individuals with mental  retardation  and  other  developmental
   16  disabilities  and  voluntary  reporting of abused or neglected adults to
   17  the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities  or  the
   18  local  adult  protective services unit. Each applicant shall provide the
   19  department with documentation showing that he or she has  completed  the
   20  required  training.  The  department shall provide an exemption from the
   21  child AND ELDER abuse and  maltreatment  training  requirements  to  any
   22  applicant  who  requests such an exemption and who shows, to the depart-
   23  ment's satisfaction, that there would be no need because of  the  nature
   24  of his or her practice for him or her to complete such training;
   25    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January of the second
   26  calendar year commencing after the date on which it shall have become  a
   27  law.