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A07341 Summary:

A07341 Actions:

A07341 Committee Votes:

Committee:CHILDREN AND FAMILIES   Chair:Hevesi      
DATE:05/23/2023AYE/NAY:16/0  Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules        
Hevesi
Aye
Byrnes
Aye
Davila
Aye
Flood
Aye
Vanel
Aye
Maher
Aye
Jean-Pierre
Aye
McGowan
Aye
Darling
Aye
Pirozzolo
Excused
Anderson
Aye
Clark
Aye
Lunsford
Aye
Meeks
Aye
Gonzalez-Rojas
Aye
Mitaynes
Aye
Chandler-Waterm
Aye

Committee:CHILDREN AND FAMILIES   Chair:Hevesi      
DATE:05/14/2024AYE/NAY:17/0  Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules        
Hevesi
Aye
Byrnes
Aye
Davila
Aye
Flood
Aye
Vanel
Aye
Maher
Aye
Jean-Pierre
Aye
McGowan
Aye
Darling
Aye
Pirozzolo
Aye
Anderson
Aye
Clark
Aye
Lunsford
Aye
Meeks
Aye
Gonzalez-Rojas
Aye
Mitaynes
Aye
Chandler-Waterm
Aye

Committee:RULES   Chair:Pretlow      
DATE:05/20/2024AYE/NAY:27/0  Action: Favorable         
Heastie
Excused
Barclay
Aye
Weinstein
Aye
Hawley
Aye
Pretlow
Aye
Giglio
Aye
Cook
Aye
Blankenbush
Aye
Glick
Aye
Norris
Aye
Aubry
Aye
Ra
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Brabenec
Aye
Colton
Aye
Palmesano
Aye
Magnarelli
Aye
Reilly
Aye
Paulin
Aye
Peoples-Stokes
Aye
Benedetto
Aye
Lavine
Excused
Lupardo
Aye
Zebrowski
Aye
Thiele
Excused
Braunstein
Aye
Dickens
Excused
Davila
Aye
Hyndman
Aye
Rozic
Aye
Bronson
Aye

A07341 Floor Votes:

A07341 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         7341--B
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 17, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Children and Families -- reported and referred to the Committee on
          Rules -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Children  and  Families  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the social services law, in relation to allowing for
          child protective services workers to complete certain required  train-
          ing through distance learning methods
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 421 of the social
     2  services law, as amended by chapter 525 of the laws of 2006, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (b)  promulgate  regulations setting forth training requirements which
     5  shall specify, among other things, that all persons  hired  by  a  child
     6  protective  service on or after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six
     7  shall have satisfactorily completed a course approved by the  department
     8  within  the  first  three  months  of employment, in the fundamentals of
     9  child protection, provided, however, that on or after April  first,  two
    10  thousand  twenty-five,  such  course  may  be  satisfactorily  completed
    11  through distance learning methods which evince that all participants are
    12  in attendance for the duration of the course and are able to  ask  ques-
    13  tions  of  the  instructor.  Each  county shall be authorized to adopt a
    14  local law, ordinance or resolution to provide for a local department  of
    15  social  services to fulfill the training requirement established by this
    16  paragraph through a distance learning method, excluding  the  annual  in
    17  service  training  requirement. Such course shall include at least basic
    18  training in the principles and techniques of  investigations,  including
    19  relationships  with  other  investigative  bodies, legal issues in child
    20  protection,  and  methods  of  remediation,  diagnosis,  treatment   and
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10845-06-4
        A. 7341--B                          2
 
     1  prevention.  Such  regulations  shall  also  specify  that  all  persons
     2  employed by a child protective service on or after December  first,  two
     3  thousand  six  shall  satisfactorily  complete  six  hours  of annual in
     4  service  training,  beginning  in  their second year of employment. Such
     5  annual in service training shall include, but is not limited to,  review
     6  of the protocols for identification and investigation of child abuse and
     7  maltreatment, any developments in legal, treatment and prevention issues
     8  in  child  protection,  and  review and analysis of field experiences of
     9  child protective services workers.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.