Bill Text: NY S08678 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8678 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to expanding the persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected child abuse to include employees, volunteers, or agents of any corporate entity having an agreement with a municipality as a tier II facility or any other shelter providing temporary housing to persons under the age of 18.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S08678 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08678-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8678
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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 to
          include employees, volunteers,  or  agents  of  any  corporate  entity
          having  an  agreement with a municipality as a tier II facility or any
          other shelter providing temporary housing to persons under the age  of
          18
          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 7 of part C of  chapter  57  of  the
     3  laws of 2018, 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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06164-04-8

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     1  administrative license or certificate;  full  or  part-time  compensated
     2  school employee required to hold a temporary coaching license or profes-
     3  sional coaching certificate; social services worker; employee of a publ-
     4  icly-funded  emergency shelter for families with children; director of a
     5  children's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp,
     6  as such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of  the
     7  public health law; day care center worker; school-age child care worker;
     8  provider  of family or group family day care; employee or volunteer in a
     9  residential care facility for children that is  licensed,  certified  or
    10  operated  by  the  office  of children and family services; or any other
    11  child care or foster care worker; mental health professional;  substance
    12  abuse  counselor;  alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed by the
    13  office of alcoholism and substance abuse services;  employees,  who  are
    14  expected  to  have  regular  and substantial contact with children, of a
    15  health home or health home care management  agency  contracting  with  a
    16  health  home  as  designated  by the department of health and authorized
    17  under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter or such employ-
    18  ees who provide home and community based services under a  demonstration
    19  program pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social
    20  security  act  who  are expected to have regular and substantial contact
    21  with children; peace  officer;  police  officer;  district  attorney  or
    22  assistant  district  attorney;  investigator employed in the office of a
    23  district attorney; or other law enforcement official; or any employee of
    24  a tier II facility or any other shelter providing temporary  housing  to
    25  persons under the age of eighteen.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.