Bill Text: NY S03197 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Allows a person with a master's of social work degree who meets certain requirements to file to be licensed within one year after the effective date of this act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-29 - PRINT NUMBER 3197A [S03197 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03197-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3197--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 31, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recom-
         mitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with  Senate
         Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  practice  of
         licensed social workers
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 7707  of  the  education  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  230  of  the  laws  of 2004, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    2. Any person who possesses a master's of social work  degree  on  the
    5  effective  date  of  this  section,  who has five years of post-graduate
    6  social work employment and meets the requirements for a license pursuant
    7  to this article, except for examination, and who files with the  depart-
    8  ment within one year [of] AFTER the effective date of [this section] THE
    9  CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN WHICH AMENDED THIS SUBDIVI-
   10  SION, shall be licensed as a licensed master social worker.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06759-02-4
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