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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 4, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred 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.