Bill Text: NY A00780 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"; provides that for licensure as a clinical social worker, an applicant may satisfy the experience requirements under supervision of a mental health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article one hundred sixty-three of the education law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to higher education [A00780 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00780-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           780

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "Super-
          vising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Thera-
          py (SUPPORT) act"

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

     1    Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Supervis-
     2  ing Upcoming Professionals for Practice in  Official  Roles  in  Therapy
     3  (SUPPORT) act".
     4    §  2.  Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 7704 of the education
     5  law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read
     6  as follows:
     7    (c)  Experience:  have at least three years full-time supervised post-
     8  graduate clinical social work experience  in  diagnosis,  psychotherapy,
     9  and  assessment-based  treatment  plans,  or  its  part-time equivalent,
    10  obtained over a continuous period not to exceed  six  years,  under  the
    11  supervision,  satisfactory  to  the  department,  of  a  psychiatrist, a
    12  licensed psychologist, [or] a  licensed  clinical  social  worker  in  a
    13  facility setting or other supervised settings approved by the department
    14  or  a  mental  health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to
    15  diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article  one
    16  hundred  sixty-three  of this title. Satisfactory experience obtained in
    17  an entity operating under a waiver issued by the department pursuant  to
    18  section  sixty-five hundred three-a of this title may be accepted by the
    19  department, notwithstanding that such experience may have been  obtained
    20  prior  to  the effective date of such section sixty-five hundred three-a
    21  and/or prior to the entity having obtained a waiver. The department may,
    22  for good cause shown, accept satisfactory experience that  was  obtained
    23  in  a  setting  that would have been eligible for a waiver but which has

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  not obtained a  waiver  from  the  department  or  experience  that  was
     2  obtained  in good faith by the applicant under the belief that appropri-
     3  ate authorization had been obtained for the  experience,  provided  that
     4  such experience meets all other requirements for acceptable experience;
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.