Senate Bill S4645

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to required training for child protective services workers

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Current Bill Status - Stricken


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S4645 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1850
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §421, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8048, A11030
2021-2022: S4969, A2158

2023-S4645 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires training in developmental disability awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity and implicit bias for child protective services workers.

2023-S4645 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4645 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4645
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. KENNEDY, MANNION -- 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 requiring child
   protective services workers to receive training in developmental disa-
   bility awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency,  sensitivity
   and implicit bias
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) and of subdivision 5 of section  421
 of  the  social services law, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 525 of
 the laws of 2006, paragraph (c) as amended by chapter 67 of the laws  of
 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   (b)  promulgate  regulations setting forth training requirements which
 shall specify, among other things, that all persons  hired  by  a  child
 protective  service on or after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six
 shall have satisfactorily completed a course approved by the  department
 within  the  first  three  months  of employment, in the fundamentals of
 child protection. Such course shall include at least basic  training  in
 the principles and techniques of investigations, including relationships
 with  other  investigative bodies, legal issues in child protection, and
 methods of remediation, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Such  regu-
 lations  shall also specify that all persons employed by a child protec-
 tive service [on or after December first, two thousand six] shall satis-
 factorily complete [six] EIGHT hours of annual [in  service]  IN-SERVICE
 training,  beginning in their second year of employment. Such annual [in
 service] IN-SERVICE training shall  include,  but  is  not  limited  to,
 review  of  the  protocols for identification and investigation of child
 abuse  and  maltreatment,  any  developments  in  legal,  treatment  and
 prevention  issues  in  child  protection,  [and] review and analysis of
 field experiences of child protective  services  workers,  DEVELOPMENTAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02940-01-3
              

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