Includes certain employees or volunteers of not-for-profit youth organizations whose primary purpose is to interact with youth through activities, events or gatherings as mandated reporters.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10664
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, the not-for-profit corporation
law and the executive law, in relation to including certain employees
or volunteers of youth organizations as mandated reporters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the
2 social services law, as amended by chapter 733 of the laws of 2023, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) The following persons and officials are required to report or
5 cause a report to be made in accordance with this title when they have
6 reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them in their
7 professional or official capacity is an abused or maltreated child, or
8 when they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused or
9 maltreated child where the parent, guardian, custodian or other person
10 legally responsible for such child comes before them in their profes-
11 sional or official capacity and states from personal knowledge facts,
12 conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the child an
13 abused or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician assist-
14 ant; surgeon; medical examiner; coroner; dentist; dental hygienist;
15 osteopath; optometrist; chiropractor; podiatrist; resident; intern;
16 athletic trainer; psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emer-
17 gency medical technician; licensed creative arts therapist; licensed
18 marriage and family therapist; licensed mental health counselor;
19 licensed psychoanalyst; licensed behavior analyst; certified behavior
20 analyst assistant; hospital personnel engaged in the admission, examina-
21 tion, care or treatment of persons; a Christian Science practitioner;
22 school official, which includes but is not limited to school teacher,
23 school guidance counselor, school psychologist, school social worker,
24 school nurse, school administrator or other school personnel required to
25 hold a teaching or administrative license or certificate; full or part-
26 time compensated school employee required to hold a temporary coaching
27 license or professional coaching certificate; social services worker;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 employee of a publicly-funded emergency shelter for families with chil-
2 dren; director of a children's overnight camp, summer day camp or trav-
3 eling summer day camp, as such camps are defined in section thirteen
4 hundred ninety-two of the public health law; employee or volunteer of a
5 not-for-profit organization with the primary purpose of engaging with
6 youth under the age of eighteen through activities, events, or gath-
7 erings, as designated by the commissioner where such employee or volun-
8 teer is likely to have regular and substantial contact with such youth;
9 day care center worker; school-age child care worker; provider of family
10 or group family day care; employee or volunteer in a residential care
11 facility for children that is licensed, certified or operated by the
12 office of children and family services; or any other child care or
13 foster care worker; mental health professional; substance abuse counse-
14 lor; alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed by the office of
15 [alcoholism and substance abuse services] addiction services and
16 supports; employees, who are expected to have regular and substantial
17 contact with children, of a health home or health home care management
18 agency contracting with a health home as designated by the department of
19 health and authorized under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this
20 chapter or such employees who provide home and community based services
21 under a demonstration program pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen
22 of the federal social security act who are expected to have regular and
23 substantial contact with children; peace officer; police officer;
24 district attorney or assistant district attorney; investigator employed
25 in the office of a district attorney; or other law enforcement official.
26 § 2. Section 404 of the not-for-profit corporation law is amended by
27 adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
28 (w) Every certificate of incorporation which includes as the primary
29 purpose the operation of a corporation where its employees or volunteers
30 are expected to have regular and substantial contact with youth under
31 the age of eighteen through activities, events, or gatherings and such
32 corporation has been designated by the office of children and family
33 services, pursuant to section four hundred thirteen of the social
34 services law, shall have endorsed thereon or annexed thereto notice to
35 the office of children and family services of the incorporation.
36 § 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 111 to read
37 as follows:
38 § 111. Notice to certain corporations related to reporting require-
39 ments. The secretary of state, in consultation with the office of chil-
40 dren and family services, shall provide notice to any entity incorpo-
41 rated pursuant to article four of the not-for-profit corporation law
42 prior to the effective date of this section who has since been desig-
43 nated by the office of children and family services pursuant to section
44 four hundred thirteen of the social services law. Upon such notice, such
45 not-for-profit corporation shall be required to meet the requirements
46 contained in section four hundred thirteen of the social services law.
47 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
48 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
49 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
50 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
51 completed on or before such effective date.
