STATE OF NEW YORK
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6420
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 6, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, GOODELL -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including phar-
macists in the list of persons and officials required to report child
abuse
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 social
2 services law, as amended by section 7 of part C of chapter 57 of the
3 laws of 2018, is 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 psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni-
17 cian; licensed creative arts therapist; licensed marriage and family
18 therapist; licensed mental health counselor; licensed psychoanalyst;
19 licensed behavior analyst; certified behavior analyst assistant; hospi-
20 tal personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care or treatment
21 of persons; a Christian Science practitioner; school official, which
22 includes but is not limited to school teacher, school guidance counse-
23 lor, school psychologist, school social worker, school nurse, school
24 administrator or other school personnel required to hold a teaching or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 administrative license or certificate; full or part-time compensated
2 school employee required to hold a temporary coaching license or profes-
3 sional coaching certificate; social services worker; pharmacist; employ-
4 ee of a publicly-funded emergency shelter for families with children;
5 director of a children's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling
6 summer day camp, as such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred
7 ninety-two of the public health law; day care center worker; school-age
8 child care worker; provider of family or group family day care; employee
9 or volunteer in a residential care facility for children that is
10 licensed, certified or operated by the office of children and family
11 services; or any other child care or foster care worker; mental health
12 professional; substance abuse counselor; alcoholism counselor; all
13 persons credentialed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse
14 services; employees, who are expected to have regular and substantial
15 contact with children, of a health home or health home care management
16 agency contracting with a health home as designated by the department of
17 health and authorized under section three hundred sixty-five-l of this
18 chapter or such employees who provide home and community based services
19 under a demonstration program pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen
20 of the federal social security act who are expected to have regular and
21 substantial contact with children; peace officer; police officer;
22 district attorney or assistant district attorney; investigator employed
23 in the office of a district attorney; or other law enforcement official.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
