Bill Text: NY S06459 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides all child protective service employees with supportive mental health services and resources.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to children and families [S06459 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06459-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6459

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  providing  all
          child  protective  services  employees  with  supportive mental health
          services and resources

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

     1    Section 1. Section 421 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  provide  all  child  protective services employees with supportive
     4  mental health services and resources including but not  limited  to  eye
     5  movement  desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), vicarious and second-
     6  ary trauma treatment and other forms of therapy, counseling, and  infor-
     7  mation as needed to support the health and wellbeing of such employees.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10243-01-3