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                                   1486
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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  expanding  the
   persons  responsible  for  reporting cases of suspected child abuse to
   include employees, volunteers,  or  agents  of  any  corporate  entity
   having  an  agreement with a municipality as a tier II facility or any
   other shelter providing temporary housing to persons under the age  of
   18
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social
 services law, as amended by section 7 of part C of  chapter  57  of  the
 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  The  following  persons  and  officials are required to report or
 cause a report to be made in accordance with this title when  they  have
 reasonable  cause  to  suspect  that a child coming before them in their
 professional or official capacity is an abused or maltreated  child,  or
 when  they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused or
 maltreated child where the parent, guardian, custodian or  other  person
 legally  responsible  for  such child comes before them in their profes-
 sional or official capacity and states from  personal  knowledge  facts,
 conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the child an
 abused  or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician assist-
 ant; surgeon; medical  examiner;  coroner;  dentist;  dental  hygienist;
 osteopath;  optometrist;  chiropractor;  podiatrist;  resident;  intern;
 psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni-
 cian; licensed creative arts therapist;  licensed  marriage  and  family
 therapist;  licensed  mental  health  counselor; licensed psychoanalyst;
 licensed behavior analyst; certified behavior analyst assistant;  hospi-
 tal  personnel  engaged in the admission, examination, care or treatment
 of persons; a Christian Science  practitioner;  school  official,  which
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 includes  but  is not limited to school teacher, school guidance counse-
 lor, school psychologist, school social  worker,  school  nurse,  school
 administrator  or  other school personnel required to hold a teaching or
 administrative  license  or  certificate;  full or part-time compensated
 school employee required to hold a temporary coaching license or profes-
 sional coaching certificate; social services worker; employee of a publ-
 icly-funded emergency shelter for families with children; director of  a
 children's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp,
 as  such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of the
 public health law; day care center worker; school-age child care worker;
 provider of family or group family day care; employee or volunteer in  a
 residential  care  facility  for children that is licensed, certified or
 operated by the office of children and family  services;  or  any  other
 child  care or foster care worker; mental health professional; substance
 abuse counselor; alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed  by  the
 office  of  alcoholism  and substance abuse services; employees, who are
 expected to have regular and substantial contact  with  children,  of  a
 health  home  or  health  home care management agency contracting with a
 health home as designated by the department  of  health  and  authorized
 under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this chapter or such employ-
 ees  who provide home and community based services under a demonstration
 program pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social
 security act who are expected to have regular  and  substantial  contact
 with  children;  peace  officer;  police  officer;  district attorney or
 assistant district attorney; investigator employed in the  office  of  a
 district attorney; or other law enforcement official; OR ANY EMPLOYEE OF
 A  TIER  II FACILITY OR ANY OTHER SHELTER PROVIDING TEMPORARY HOUSING TO
 PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.