Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"; provides that for licensure as a clinical social worker, an applicant may satisfy the experience requirements under supervision of 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 the education law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6999
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Supervis-
2 ing Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy
3 (SUPPORT) act".
4 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 7704 of the education
5 law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
6 as follows:
7 (c) Experience: have at least three years full-time supervised post-
8 graduate clinical social work experience in diagnosis, psychotherapy,
9 and assessment-based treatment plans, or its part-time equivalent,
10 obtained over a continuous period not to exceed six years, under the
11 supervision, satisfactory to the department, of a psychiatrist, a
12 licensed psychologist, [or] a licensed clinical social worker in a
13 facility setting or other supervised settings approved by the department
14 or a mental health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to
15 diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article one
16 hundred sixty-three of this title. Satisfactory experience obtained in
17 an entity operating under a waiver issued by the department pursuant to
18 section sixty-five hundred three-a of this title may be accepted by the
19 department, notwithstanding that such experience may have been obtained
20 prior to the effective date of such section sixty-five hundred three-a
21 and/or prior to the entity having obtained a waiver. The department may,
22 for good cause shown, accept satisfactory experience that was obtained
23 in a setting that would have been eligible for a waiver but which has
24 not obtained a waiver from the department or experience that was
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 obtained in good faith by the applicant under the belief that appropri-
2 ate authorization had been obtained for the experience, provided that
3 such experience meets all other requirements for acceptable experience;
4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
