Bill Text: NY S08597 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of mental health to establish up to three, three-year pilot programs in community behavioral health organizations for the purposes of creating social worker pilot programs to support the ongoing retention and recruitment of licensed clinical social workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S08597 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8597

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation  to  establishing  a
          social worker residency pilot program; and providing for the repeal of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof

          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  7.49 to read as follows:
     3  § 7.49 Social worker residency pilot program.
     4    (a)  Subject  to appropriation, the commissioner shall establish up to
     5  three, three-year pilot programs in community behavioral  health  organ-
     6  izations,  as  defined  in  article  thirty-one of this chapter, for the
     7  purposes of creating social worker residency pilot programs  to  support
     8  the  ongoing retention and recruitment of licensed clinical social work-
     9  ers licensed by the department.
    10    (b) Such pilot programs shall provide supervised  post-graduate  clin-
    11  ical  social  work experience as required by the department of education
    12  pursuant to section seven thousand seven hundred four of  the  education
    13  law at no cost to the resident.
    14    (c)  The  commissioner shall establish and develop all other standards
    15  applicable to the program.
    16    (d) The commissioner shall develop evaluation criteria for  the  pilot
    17  programs, which shall include, but not be limited to:
    18    (1) any improved ability for community behavioral health organizations
    19  to  recruit  newly licensed clinical social workers as part of the pilot
    20  program;
    21    (2) substantive focus of the pilot program training on evidence  based
    22  models with track records of clinical success;
    23    (3) the pilot program providing continuing education for participating
    24  social  workers shall provide such continuing education at least one day
    25  per week;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (4) the pilot program providing  clinical  supervision  shall  provide
     2  hours  for  the  social work graduates which count towards licenses that
     3  increase their scope of practice;
     4    (5)  the  percentage  of  the pilot program participants who achieve a
     5  full licensed clinical social worker license; and
     6    (6) the average length of  employment  for  licensed  clinical  social
     7  workers  employed with community behavioral health organizations hosting
     8  the social worker residency pilot program.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    10  deemed repealed six years after such date.