Bill Text: NY S00291 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that the office for people with developmental disabilities shall not require its employees having regular contact with developmentally disabled persons such complete individualized psychological assessments unless such office requires the employees of providers of service to the developmentally disabled to complete such assessments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S00291 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00291-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         291--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental Disabilities -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the mental hygiene law, in relation to psychological
          assessments of employees who have regular contact  with  persons  with
          developmental disabilities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  16.39 to read as follows:
     3  § 16.39 Individualized psychological assessment of employees.
     4    The  office shall not require the completion of individualized psycho-
     5  logical assessments of employees of the office who have regular  contact
     6  with  clients of the office unless the office requires the completion of
     7  individualized psychological assessments  of  employees  employed  by  a
     8  provider  of  services  who  contracts with, is approved or is otherwise
     9  authorized by the office to provide services  and  has  regular  contact
    10  with such clients.
    11    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    12  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02317-02-7