Bill Text: NY A03523 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the practice of applied behavior analysis.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-13)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-30 - signed chap.818 [A03523 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03523-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3523

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PEOPLES-STOKES, SOLAGES, GUNTHER, M. MILLER,
          THIELE,  BYRNE,  SANTABARBARA,  ABINANTI,  WALSH,   GRIFFIN,   STIRPE,
          BARCLAY,  ZEBROWSKI,  SCHMITT, WALLACE, GOTTFRIED, DiPIETRO, JACOBSON,
          PICHARDO, DICKENS, COLTON, NIOU, McMAHON, PAULIN, DINOWITZ  --  Multi-
          Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. BRABENEC, BRONSON, HEVESI, LALOR, MANKTELOW
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to applied behavior anal-
          ysis

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 8802 of the education law, as
     2  added by chapter 554 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. The practice of applied behavior analysis by a  "licensed  behavior
     4  analyst"  shall  mean the design, implementation and evaluation of envi-
     5  ronmental modifications, using behavioral stimuli and  consequences,  to
     6  produce  socially  significant  improvement in human behavior, including
     7  the use of direct observation, measurement, and functional  analysis  of
     8  the  relationship between environment and behavior, pursuant to a [diag-
     9  nosis and] prescription or order from a person who is licensed or other-
    10  wise authorized to provide such [diagnosis and] prescription or ordering
    11  services pursuant to a profession enumerated  in  this  title,  for  the
    12  purpose  of  providing  behavioral  health  treatment  [for persons with
    13  autism and autism spectrum disorders and related disorders].
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05851-01-1