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S00253 Summary:

BILL NOS00253
 
SAME ASSAME AS A05135
 
SPONSORMARTINEZ
 
COSPNSRHELMING, MURRAY, PALUMBO, RHOADS
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §421, Soc Serv L
 
Provides all child protective service employees with supportive mental health services and resources.
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S00253 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           253
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. MARTINEZ, HELMING, MURRAY, PALUMBO, RHOADS -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Health
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to providing all
          child protective services  employees  with  supportive  mental  health
          services and resources
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 421 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9. provide all child protective  services  employees  with  supportive
     4  mental  health  services  and resources including but not limited to eye
     5  movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), vicarious and  second-
     6  ary  trauma treatment and other forms of therapy, counseling, and infor-
     7  mation as needed to support the health and wellbeing of such employees.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01095-01-5
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