Bill Text: NY A06420 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes pharmacists in the list of persons and officials required to report child abuse or mistreatment.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to children and families [A06420 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06420-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6420

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. McDONALD, GOODELL -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including  phar-
          macists in the list of persons and officials required  to report child
          abuse

          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.
                                                                   LBD10699-01-3
        A. 6420                             2

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