Bill Text: NY S07669 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to including amateur sports organization personnel as required reporters of suspected child abuse or maltreatment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-06 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S07669 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07669-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7669
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 6, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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  including
          amateur  athletic  organization  personnel  as  required  reporters of
          suspected child abuse or maltreatment
          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 section 2 of part Q of chapter 56 of the
     3  laws of 2017, is amended 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  licensed  behavior analyst; certified behavior analyst assistant; hospi-
    20  tal personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care  or  treatment
    21  of  persons;  a  Christian  Science practitioner; school official, which
    22  includes but is not limited to school teacher, school  guidance  counse-
    23  lor,  school  psychologist,  school  social worker, school nurse, school
    24  administrator or other school personnel required to hold a  teaching  or
    25  administrative  license  or  certificate;  full or part-time compensated
    26  school employee required to hold a temporary coaching license or profes-
    27  sional coaching  certificate;  amateur  sports  organization  personnel;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14538-01-8

        S. 7669                             2
     1  social  services worker; employee of a publicly-funded emergency shelter
     2  for families with children; director of  a  children's  overnight  camp,
     3  summer  day camp or traveling summer day camp, as such camps are defined
     4  in  section  thirteen  hundred  ninety-two of the public health law; day
     5  care center worker; school-age child care worker; provider of family  or
     6  group  family  day  care;  employee  or  volunteer in a residential care
     7  facility for children that is licensed, certified  or  operated  by  the
     8  office  of  children  and  family  services;  or any other child care or
     9  foster care worker; mental health professional; substance abuse  counse-
    10  lor;  alcoholism  counselor;  all  persons credentialed by the office of
    11  alcoholism and substance abuse services; peace officer; police  officer;
    12  district  attorney or assistant district attorney; investigator employed
    13  in the office of a district attorney; or other law enforcement official.
    14    § 2. Section 412 of the social services law is amended by adding three
    15  new subdivisions 10, 11 and 12 to read as follows:
    16    10. "Amateur sports organization" means a not-for-profit  corporation,
    17  association, or other group organized in New York state that sponsors or
    18  arranges  a  contest,  game,  meet, match, tournament, regatta, or other
    19  event in which amateur athletes compete.
    20    11. "Amateur sports organization personnel"  means  an  adult  who  is
    21  authorized  by  an amateur sports organization or a member of an amateur
    22  sports organization to interact with a minor or amateur  athlete  at  an
    23  amateur  sports  organization  facility or at any event sanctioned by an
    24  amateur sports organization or a member of an amateur  sports  organiza-
    25  tion.  For  the  purposes  of  this  subdivision  the term "event" shall
    26  include travel, practice, competition and health or medical treatment.
    27    12. "Amateur athlete" means an athlete who meets the eligibility stan-
    28  dards established by the amateur sports organization for  the  sport  in
    29  which such athlete competes.
    30    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    31  have become a law.
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