Bill Text: NY A06986 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office for the aging to develop and provide elder abuse prevention training to train senior service centers and contractors in the detection and reporting of elder abuse in consultation with the office of children and family services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to aging [A06986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06986-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6986

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in  relation  to  providing  elder  abuse
          prevention training

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

     1    Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a new section  219-a  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    219-a.  Elder abuse awareness and prevention training. 1. The director
     4  shall,  in  cooperation  with the office of children and family services
     5  and the division of state police:
     6    (a) develop, maintain and disseminate educational material relating to
     7  abuse of adults,  including  physical  abuse,  sexual  abuse,  emotional
     8  abuse,  active  neglect,  passive  neglect,  self neglect, and financial
     9  exploitation, as such terms are defined in section four  hundred  seven-
    10  ty-three of the social services law,
    11    (b) establish and implement written procedures and policies for senior
    12  centers  and  contractors  in  the event employees of senior centers and
    13  employees of entities that contract with the office and  the  office  of
    14  children  and  family  services  encounters  such  abuse,  including the
    15  provision of information and referral, and
    16    (c) nothing in this section shall prevent the  office  from  utilizing
    17  materials in section two hundred nineteen of this title.
    18    2.  (a)  The  director shall develop a program to train senior service
    19  providers in the detection and reporting of elder  abuse.  Such  program
    20  shall also include training on the counseling of elder abuse victims.
    21    (b)  The  director  shall require that employees of senior centers and
    22  employees of entities that contract with the office and  the  office  of
    23  children  and family services to provide services to senior citizens, be
    24  trained in elder abuse detection, reporting and counseling, and  receive
    25  supplemental  refresher  training regarding the same at least once every

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05957-01-3
        A. 6986                             2

     1  three years, if such employee has or is expected to have significant and
     2  direct person to person contact with senior citizens.
     3    (c)  The  director  shall  require senior centers to hold at least two
     4  educational sessions per year during which guests  and  members  of  the
     5  senior  center  will receive counseling regarding elder abuse prevention
     6  and awareness and be instructed on how to detect and report instances of
     7  elder abuse.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.