Bill Text: NY S06464 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S06464 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06464-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6464

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 21, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 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
        S. 6464                             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.