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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. WALSH, MORINELLO, McDONOUGH, HAWLEY, SAYEGH, RA,
   PALMESANO, BRABENEC, TAGUE, SMULLEN, JENSEN, DURSO, GALLAHAN,  SIMPSON
   --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. ANGELINO, BLANKENBUSH, DeSTEFANO,
   MANKTELOW, MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Chil-
   dren and Families
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law and the public health law, in
   relation to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or  maltreat-
   ment by certain persons
 
   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
 includes but is not limited to COLLEGE COACH, ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, PROFES-
 SOR,  GRADUATE  ASSISTANT,  COLLEGE  ADMINISTRATOR,  COLLEGE  PRESIDENT,
              

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 school teacher, school guidance counselor, 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 professional coaching  certificate;
 social  services worker; employee of a publicly-funded emergency shelter
 for families with children; director OR ANY PAID STAFF MEMBER of a chil-
 dren'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, SUCH PAID STAFF MEMBERS SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE
 LIMITED  TO,  ANY  INDIVIDUALS  WHO  MAY  INTERACT WITH CHILDREN THROUGH
 EMPLOYMENT AT SUCH CAMPS OR EMPLOYMENT AT PREMISES WHERE SUCH CAMPS  ARE
 LOCATED;  day care center worker; school-age child care worker; provider
 of family or group family day care; employee or volunteer in a  residen-
 tial  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 coun-
 selor;  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 employees 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.
   § 1-a. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section  413  of  the  social
 services  law, as amended by chapter 733 of the laws of 2023, 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;
 athletic  trainer;  psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emer-
 gency medical technician; licensed  creative  arts  therapist;  licensed
 marriage   and  family  therapist;  licensed  mental  health  counselor;
 licensed psychoanalyst; licensed behavior  analyst;  certified  behavior
 analyst assistant; hospital personnel engaged in the admission, examina-
 tion,  care  or  treatment of persons; a Christian Science practitioner;
 school official, which includes but is not limited  to,  COLLEGE  COACH,
 ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, PROFESSOR, GRADUATE ASSISTANT, COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR,
 COLLEGE  PRESIDENT,  school  teacher,  school guidance counselor, 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
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 required  to  hold a temporary coaching license or professional coaching
 certificate; social services worker; employee of a publicly-funded emer-
 gency shelter for families with children; director  OR  ANY  PAID  STAFF
 MEMBER  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;  SUCH PAID STAFF MEMBERS SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ANY INDIVIDUALS WHO  MAY  INTERACT  WITH
 CHILDREN  THROUGH  EMPLOYMENT  AT  SUCH  CAMPS OR EMPLOYMENT AT PREMISES
 WHERE SUCH CAMPS ARE LOCATED; 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 creden-
 tialed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services; employ-
 ees, who are expected to have regular and substantial contact with chil-
 dren, of a health home or health home care management agency contracting
 with a health home as designated by the department of health and author-
 ized under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this  chapter  or  such
 employees  who  provide home and community based services under a demon-
 stration 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.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section  1392  of  the  public  health  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  439  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. "Summer day camp" shall mean a property consisting of  a  tract  of
 land  and any tents, vehicles, buildings or other structures that may be
 pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occupied on  a  scheduled
 basis at any time between June first and September fifteenth in any year
 by  children  under  sixteen years of age under general supervision, for
 the purpose of ANY indoor or outdoor organized group activities, involv-
 ing ONE OR MORE: (I) nonpassive recreational activities with significant
 risk of injury, as such activities are  defined  by  the  department  in
 rules and regulations, OR (II) EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES, for a
 period  of  less  than  twenty-four  hours on any day the property is so
 occupied, and on which no provisions are made for overnight occupancy by
 such children. The commissioner shall have the power to except  by  rule
 from  this  article  and the sanitary code a place, facility or activity
 that is not within the intent  of  this  definition,  PROVIDED  THAT  NO
 EXCEPTION  MAY  BE  GRANTED TO A SUMMER DAY CAMP WHICH IS DEDICATED TO A
 SINGLE ACTIVITY IF THAT ACTIVITY MEETS  THE  CRITERIA  OF  A  NONPASSIVE
 RECREATIONAL  ACTIVITY  WITH  SIGNIFICANT RISK OF INJURY OR IS AN EDUCA-
 TIONAL PROGRAM OR ACTIVITY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that  the  amendments  to
 paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social services law
 made by section one-a of this act shall take effect on the same date and
 in  the  same  manner  as section 12 of chapter 733 of the laws of 2023,
 takes effect. Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such date.