Bill Text: NY S00361 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring counselors to have certain courses of study or equivalent on-the-job experience including on providing trauma-informed, patient-centered care, referring individuals to appropriate treatments for co-occurring disorders, and sensitivity training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-03 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5527A [S00361 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00361-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         361--A
            Cal. No. 89

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. PERSAUD, PARKER, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcohol-
          ism and Substance Abuse -- reported  favorably  from  said  committee,
          ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed
          by  Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered,
          restored to third reading, amended and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining
          its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to approved courses
          of study or equivalent on-the-job experience for counselors

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  1  of  subdivision (d) of section 19.07 of the
     2  mental hygiene law, as amended by section 5 of part I of chapter  58  of
     3  the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  The  office shall establish minimum qualifications for counselors
     5  in all phases of delivery of services to persons and their families  who
     6  are  suffering  from  alcohol  and/or  substance  abuse  and/or chemical
     7  dependence and/or compulsive gambling that shall  include,  but  not  be
     8  limited  to,  completion  of  approved  courses  of  study or equivalent
     9  on-the-job experience  in  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse  counseling
    10  and/or counseling of compulsive gambling. Such approved courses of study
    11  or  equivalent on-the-job experience shall include: providing trauma-in-
    12  formed, patient-centered  care;  referring  individuals  to  appropriate
    13  treatments  for  co-occurring  disorders; and sensitivity training. Such
    14  courses shall be updated as needed to reflect evolving best practices in
    15  harm reduction, treatment and long-term recovery. For  the  purposes  of
    16  this  paragraph, sensitivity training shall mean a form of training with
    17  the goal of making people more aware of their own  prejudices  and  more
    18  sensitive to others.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03317-03-1