Extends certain provisions authorizing certain mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychoanalysts to engage in diagnosis and the development of assessment-based treatment plans.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8045
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend chapter 230 of the laws of 2022, amending the education
law relating to diagnostic privilege, in relation to extending the
effectiveness of certain provisions thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6 of chapter 230 of the laws of 2022, amending the
2 education law relating to diagnostic privilege, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 § 6. This act shall take effect June 24, 2022; provided however, that
5 sections two and three of this act shall take effect June 24, 2024;
6 provided, further, that the provisions of section five of this act shall
7 expire and be deemed repealed June 24, [2025] 2027. Effective imme-
8 diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
9 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
10 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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