Bill Text: NY S06864 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires applicants for certain nursing licenses and certifications to complete a course in the prevention of human trafficking; directs the commissioners of education and health to develop such training and regulations; and directs that certain forfeited funds be used to reimburse actual costs expended for the development of such training.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S06864 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06864-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6864

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    November 22, 2019
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the education law, the public health law and  the  civil
          practice  law  and  rules,  in  relation  to  requiring applicants for
          certain nursing licenses and certifications to  complete  training  in
          the prevention of human trafficking

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

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 59 to read as follows:
     3    59. The commissioner shall consult and collaborate  with  the  commis-
     4  sioner  of  health  and appropriate organizations that have expertise in
     5  the prevention  of  human  trafficking,  as  well  as  other  interested
     6  parties, to establish and develop training within the department related
     7  to  noticing  signs  and evidence of, and the prevention of, human traf-
     8  ficking. Such training shall be defined by  the  commissioner  in  regu-
     9  lations after consultation with the department of health and be designed
    10  to  educate  those  seeking  the  license or certification of registered
    11  professional nurse, licensed practical nurse,  certified  nurse  practi-
    12  tioner, and clinical nurse specialist. The training shall be defined and
    13  ready  for  usage  by  license or certification applicants no later than
    14  three years after the effective date of this subdivision.
    15    § 2. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding  a  new
    16  subdivision 31 to read as follows:
    17    31.  The  commissioner  shall assist the commissioner of education and
    18  consult and collaborate with appropriate organizations that have  exper-
    19  tise in the prevention of human trafficking, as well as other interested
    20  parties,  to  establish  and  develop  training within the department of
    21  education related to noticing signs and evidence of, and the  prevention
    22  of,  human  trafficking  for  the  purposes  of  educating those seeking
    23  license or certification as a registered  professional  nurse,  licensed

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11035-03-9

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     1  practical  nurse,  certified  nurse  practitioner,  and  clinical  nurse
     2  specialist.
     3    §  3.  Section  6905  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     5    (2-a) Noticing the signs of and  preventing  human  trafficking:  have
     6  completed  training  in  the prevention of human trafficking as designed
     7  and approved by the department;
     8    § 4. Section 6906 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     9  subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    10    (2-a)  Noticing  the  signs  of and preventing human trafficking: have
    11  completed training in the prevention of human  trafficking  as  designed
    12  and approved by the department;
    13    §  5. Subdivision 1 of section 6910 of the education law is amended by
    14  adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
    15    (c-1) Noticing the signs of and  preventing  human  trafficking:  have
    16  completed  training  in  the prevention of human trafficking as designed
    17  and approved by the department;
    18    § 6. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 6911 of  the  education
    19  law,  as  added by chapter 364 of the laws of 2013, is amended and a new
    20  paragraph (c-1) is added to read as follows:
    21    (c) (i) have satisfactorily completed an  educational  program  regis-
    22  tered  by  the  department including a master's or doctoral degree, or a
    23  post-master's certificate from a program acceptable  to  the  department
    24  which  prepares graduates to practice as CNSs and which is accredited by
    25  a national nursing accredited body acceptable  to  the  department,  and
    26  (ii) meets all other requirements established by the department to prac-
    27  tice  as a clinical nurse specialist, or (iii) have received educational
    28  preparation determined by the department to be  the  substantial  equiv-
    29  alent of subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph; [and]
    30    (c-1)  noticing  the  signs  of and preventing human trafficking: have
    31  completed training in the prevention of human  trafficking  as  designed
    32  and approved by the department; and
    33    § 7. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 2 of section 1349 of the civil prac-
    34  tice  law  and  rules,  as  added by chapter 655 of the laws of 1990, is
    35  amended to read as follows:
    36    (f) In addition to amounts, if any, distributed pursuant to  paragraph
    37  (d)  of  this  subdivision,  five percent of all moneys realized through
    38  forfeiture to  the  claiming  agent  in  satisfaction  of  actual  costs
    39  incurred for protecting, maintaining and forfeiting the property includ-
    40  ing  that proportion of the salaries of attorneys, clerical and investi-
    41  gative personnel devoted thereto and with respect to all moneys realized
    42  through forfeiture which are  remaining  pursuant  to  this  section  to
    43  provide  for  the  reimbursement  of  amounts  actually expended for the
    44  development of a training program for nurses relating to human traffick-
    45  ing contained in sections sixty-nine hundred  five,  sixty-nine  hundred
    46  six, sixty-nine hundred ten, and sixty-nine hundred eleven of the educa-
    47  tion law;
    48    §  8.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    49  sections three, four, five, and six of this act shall take effect  three
    50  years after this act shall have become a law.
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