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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. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "Super-
   vising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Thera-
   py (SUPPORT) act"

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Supervis-
 ing Upcoming Professionals for Practice in  Official  Roles  in  Therapy
 (SUPPORT) act".
   §  2.  Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 7704 of the education
 law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   (c)  Experience:  have at least three years full-time supervised post-
 graduate clinical social work experience  in  diagnosis,  psychotherapy,
 and  assessment-based  treatment  plans,  or  its  part-time equivalent,
 obtained over a continuous period not to exceed  six  years,  under  the
 supervision,  satisfactory  to  the  department,  of  a  psychiatrist, a
 licensed psychologist, [or] a  licensed  clinical  social  worker  in  a
 facility setting or other supervised settings approved by the department
 OR  A  MENTAL  HEALTH PRACTITIONER WHO HAS BEEN GRANTED THE PRIVILEGE TO
 DIAGNOSE AND DEVELOP ASSESSMENT-BASED TREATMENT PLANS UNDER ARTICLE  ONE
 HUNDRED  SIXTY-THREE  OF THIS TITLE. Satisfactory experience obtained in
 an entity operating under a waiver issued by the department pursuant  to
 section  sixty-five hundred three-a of this title may be accepted by the
 department, notwithstanding that such experience may have been  obtained
 prior  to  the effective date of such section sixty-five hundred three-a
 and/or prior to the entity having obtained a waiver. The department may,
 for good cause shown, accept satisfactory experience that  was  obtained
 in  a  setting  that would have been eligible for a waiver but which has
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 not obtained a  waiver  from  the  department  or  experience  that  was
 obtained  in good faith by the applicant under the belief that appropri-
 ate authorization had been obtained for the  experience,  provided  that
 such experience meets all other requirements for acceptable experience;
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.