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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           361

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. PERSAUD, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Alcoholism  and
          Substance Abuse

        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;  treating  co-occurring  disorders;  and
    13  sensitivity training. Such courses shall be updated as needed to reflect
    14  evolving  best  practices  in  harm  reduction,  treatment and long-term
    15  recovery. For the purposes of this paragraph, sensitivity training shall
    16  mean a form of training with the goal of making  people  more  aware  of
    17  their own prejudices and more sensitive to others.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03317-01-1