Bill Text: NY S02030 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the education commissioner to establish standards requiring that one hour of the three hours of coursework or training required of certain specified health care professionals regarding the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment include information regarding the relationship between child abuse and domestic violence and the identification of behavioral and physical indicators of domestic violence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S02030 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02030-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2030
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 21, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  training  regarding
         domestic violence
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 6507 of the  educa-
    2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 554 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    a. Establish standards for preprofessional and professional education,
    5  experience and licensing examinations as required to implement the arti-
    6  cle for each profession. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
    7  commissioner shall establish standards requiring that all persons apply-
    8  ing, on or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-one,  initially,
    9  or for the renewal of, a license, registration or limited permit to be a
   10  physician,  chiropractor, dentist, registered nurse, podiatrist, optome-
   11  trist,  psychiatrist,  psychologist,  licensed  master  social   worker,
   12  licensed  clinical  social  worker,  licensed  creative  arts therapist,
   13  licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed mental  health  counse-
   14  lor,   licensed   psychoanalyst,  dental  hygienist,  licensed  behavior
   15  analyst, or certified behavior analyst assistant shall, in  addition  to
   16  all  the  other  licensure,  certification  or permit requirements, have
   17  completed [two] THREE hours of  coursework  or  training  regarding  the
   18  identification  and  reporting  of  child abuse [and], maltreatment, AND
   19  DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.  The coursework or training shall be obtained from an
   20  institution or provider which has been approved  by  the  department  to
   21  provide  such  coursework  or training. The coursework or training shall
   22  include information regarding the physical and behavioral indicators  of
   23  child abuse [and], maltreatment, AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and the statutory
   24  reporting requirements set out in sections four hundred thirteen through
   25  four hundred twenty of the social services law, including but not limit-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 2030                             2
    1  ed to, when and how a report must be made, what other actions the repor-
    2  ter  is  mandated  or authorized to take, the legal protections afforded
    3  reporters, and the consequences for failing to report.  THE COMMISSIONER
    4  SHALL  ESTABLISH  STANDARDS  REQUIRING THAT BEGINNING JANUARY FIRST, TWO
    5  THOUSAND SIXTEEN, ONE HOUR OF THE THREE  COURSEWORK  OR  TRAINING  HOURS
    6  SHALL  INCLUDE  INFORMATION  REGARDING  THE  RELATIONSHIP  BETWEEN CHILD
    7  ABUSE, MALTREATMENT, AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE  AND  THE  IDENTIFICATION  OF
    8  BEHAVIORAL  AND  PHYSICAL  INDICATORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS DEFINED IN
    9  SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE-A  OF  THE  SOCIAL  SERVICES  LAW.  Such
   10  coursework  or training may also include information regarding the phys-
   11  ical and behavioral indicators of the abuse of individuals  with  mental
   12  retardation and other developmental disabilities and voluntary reporting
   13  of  abused  or  neglected adults to the office of mental retardation and
   14  developmental disabilities or the local adult protective services  unit.
   15  Each  applicant  shall provide the department with documentation showing
   16  that he or she has completed the required training. The department shall
   17  provide an exemption from  the  child  abuse  [and],  maltreatment,  AND
   18  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  training  requirements to any applicant who requests
   19  such an exemption and who shows, to the department's satisfaction,  that
   20  there  would be no need because of the nature of his or her practice for
   21  him or her to complete such training;
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.