Bill Text: NY A10008 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides all child protective service employees with supportive mental health services and resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-01 - referred to children and families [A10008 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10008-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10008

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 1, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  providing  all
          child  protective  services  employees  with  supportive mental health
          services and resources

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

     1    Section 1. Section 421 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  provide  all  child  protective services employees with supportive
     4  mental health services and resources including but not  limited  to  eye
     5  movement  desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), vicarious and second-
     6  ary trauma treatment and other forms of therapy, counseling, and  infor-
     7  mation as needed to support the health and wellbeing of such employees.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10243-01-3