Bill Text: NY S04751 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected child abuse; requires coursework for reporting child abuse and maltreatment for persons holding temporary coaching licenses or professional coaching certificates.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-06 - SIGNED CHAP.205 [S04751 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04751-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 22, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  expanding  the
         persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected child abuse
         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 1 of section 413 of the social
    2  services law, as amended by chapter 91 of the laws of 2011,  is  amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (a)  The  following  persons  and  officials are required to report or
    5  cause a report to be made in accordance with this title when  they  have
    6  reasonable  cause  to  suspect  that a child coming before them in their
    7  professional or official capacity is an abused or maltreated  child,  or
    8  when  they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused or
    9  maltreated child where the parent, guardian, custodian or  other  person
   10  legally  responsible  for  such child comes before them in their profes-
   11  sional or official capacity and states from  personal  knowledge  facts,
   12  conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the child an
   13  abused  or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician assist-
   14  ant; surgeon; medical  examiner;  coroner;  dentist;  dental  hygienist;
   15  osteopath;  optometrist;  chiropractor;  podiatrist;  resident;  intern;
   16  psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni-
   17  cian; licensed creative arts therapist;  licensed  marriage  and  family
   18  therapist;  licensed  mental  health  counselor; licensed psychoanalyst;
   19  hospital personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care or treat-
   20  ment of persons; a  Christian  Science  practitioner;  school  official,
   21  which  includes  but  is  not limited to school teacher, school guidance
   22  counselor, school psychologist,  school  social  worker,  school  nurse,
   23  school administrator or other school personnel required to hold a teach-
   24  ing  or administrative license or certificate; SCHOOL ATHLETIC DIRECTOR;
   25  SCHOOL PERSONNEL OR OTHER PERSON REQUIRED TO HOLD A  TEMPORARY  COACHING
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05059-02-3
       S. 4751                             2
    1  LICENSE  OR  PROFESSIONAL  COACHING CERTIFICATE; social services worker;
    2  director of a children's overnight camp, summer day  camp  or  traveling
    3  summer  day  camp, as such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred
    4  ninety-two  of the public health law; day care center worker; school-age
    5  child care worker; provider of family or group family day care; employee
    6  or volunteer in a residential care facility defined in subdivision  four
    7  of  section  four hundred twelve-a of this title or any other child care
    8  or foster care worker; mental health professional; substance abuse coun-
    9  selor; alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed by the  office  of
   10  alcoholism  and substance abuse services; peace officer; police officer;
   11  district attorney or assistant district attorney; investigator  employed
   12  in the office of a district attorney; or other law enforcement official.
   13    S  2.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  1 of section 413 of the social
   14  services law, as amended by section 3 of part D of chapter  501  of  the
   15  laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   16    (a)  The  following  persons  and  officials are required to report or
   17  cause a report to be made in accordance with this title when  they  have
   18  reasonable  cause  to  suspect  that a child coming before them in their
   19  professional or official capacity is an abused or maltreated  child,  or
   20  when  they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused or
   21  maltreated child where the parent, guardian, custodian or  other  person
   22  legally  responsible  for  such child comes before them in their profes-
   23  sional or official capacity and states from  personal  knowledge  facts,
   24  conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the child an
   25  abused  or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician assist-
   26  ant; surgeon; medical  examiner;  coroner;  dentist;  dental  hygienist;
   27  osteopath;  optometrist;  chiropractor;  podiatrist;  resident;  intern;
   28  psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni-
   29  cian; licensed creative arts therapist;  licensed  marriage  and  family
   30  therapist;  licensed  mental  health  counselor; licensed psychoanalyst;
   31  hospital personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care or treat-
   32  ment of persons; a  Christian  Science  practitioner;  school  official,
   33  which  includes  but  is  not limited to school teacher, school guidance
   34  counselor, school psychologist,  school  social  worker,  school  nurse,
   35  school administrator or other school personnel required to hold a teach-
   36  ing  or administrative license or certificate; SCHOOL ATHLETIC DIRECTOR;
   37  SCHOOL PERSONNEL OR OTHER PERSON REQUIRED TO HOLD A  TEMPORARY  COACHING
   38  LICENSE  OR  PROFESSIONAL  COACHING CERTIFICATE; social services worker;
   39  director of a children's overnight camp, summer day  camp  or  traveling
   40  summer  day  camp, as such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred
   41  ninety-two of the public health law; day care center worker;  school-age
   42  child  care  worker; provider of family or group family day care; or any
   43  other child care or foster  care  worker;  mental  health  professional;
   44  substance  abuse  counselor;  alcoholism  counselor; all persons creden-
   45  tialed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse  services;  peace
   46  officer;  police officer; district attorney or assistant district attor-
   47  ney; investigator employed in the office  of  a  district  attorney;  or
   48  other law enforcement official.
   49    S  3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that:
   50  section two of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
   51  same  manner  as section 3 of part D of chapter 501 of the laws of 2012,
   52  takes effect.