STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 291--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ 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