Bill Text: NY A10336 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to sexual offenses by health care or mental health care providers; requires the professional conduct officer designated to investigate a complaint of a licensee's professional misconduct to report certain sex offenses to the appropriate law enforcement official or authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-01 - signed chap.365 [A10336 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10336-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                       10336--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 22, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Codes -- reference changed to the Committee on Higher Education --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the duties of the
         professional conduct officer, applicable state board for  the  profes-
         sion,  or  the  office  of professional discipline to report potential
         criminal conduct  to  the  appropriate  law  enforcement  official  or
         authority
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Section 6510 of the education law is amended by  adding  a
    2  new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
    3    5-A.  AT  ANY  TIME, IF THE PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT OFFICER OR HIS OR HER
    4  DESIGNEE DESIGNATED TO INVESTIGATE A COMPLAINT OF A  LICENSEE'S  PROFES-
    5  SIONAL  MISCONDUCT  DETERMINES THAT THERE IS A REASONABLE BELIEF THAT AN
    6  ACT THAT CONSTITUTES A SEX OFFENSE AS DEFINED  IN  ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED
    7  THIRTY  OF THE PENAL LAW HAS BEEN COMMITTED BY THE LICENSEE, THE PROFES-
    8  SIONAL CONDUCT OFFICER OR THE OFFICE OF  PROFESSIONAL  DISCIPLINE  SHALL
    9  NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AUTHORITY.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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