Bill Text: NY S00291 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the office for people with developmental disabilities shall not require its employees having regular contact with developmentally disabled persons such complete individualized psychological assessments unless such office requires the employees of providers of service to the developmentally disabled to complete such assessments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S00291 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           291
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental Disabilities
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law,  in  relation  to  psychological
          assessments  of  employees  who have regular contact with persons with
          developmental disabilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  16.39 to read as follows:
     3  § 16.39 Individualized psychological assessment of employees.
     4    Every provider of services who contracts with or is approved or other-
     5  wise authorized by the office to provide services to the developmentally
     6  disabled shall require the completion of an individualized psychological
     7  assessment of each employee who  will  have  regular  contact  with  the
     8  clients of such provider.
     9    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02317-01-7