Requires the education commissioner to establish standards requiring that the one hour of the three hours of coursework or training required of certain specified health care professionals regarding the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment include information regarding the relationship between child abuse and domestic violence and the identification of behavioral and physical indicators of domestic violence.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8675--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 3, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Educa-
tion in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to training regarding
domestic violence
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 3 of section 6507 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 356 of the laws of 2006, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 a. Establish standards for preprofessional and professional education,
5 experience and licensing examinations as required to implement the arti-
6 cle for each profession. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
7 commissioner shall establish standards requiring that all persons apply-
8 ing, on or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, initially,
9 or for the renewal of, a license, registration or limited permit to be a
10 physician, chiropractor, dentist, registered nurse, podiatrist, optome-
11 trist, psychiatrist, psychologist, licensed master social worker,
12 licensed clinical social worker, licensed creative arts therapist,
13 licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed mental health counse-
14 lor, licensed psychoanalyst, or dental hygienist shall, in addition to
15 all the other licensure, certification or permit requirements, have
16 completed [two] three hours of coursework or training regarding the
17 identification and reporting of child abuse [and], maltreatment, and
18 domestic violence. The coursework or training shall be obtained from an
19 institution or provider which has been approved by the department to
20 provide such coursework or training. The coursework or training shall
21 include information regarding the physical and behavioral indicators of
22 child abuse [and], maltreatment, and domestic violence and the statutory
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 reporting requirements set out in sections four hundred thirteen through
2 four hundred twenty of the social services law, including but not limit-
3 ed to, when and how a report must be made, what other actions the repor-
4 ter is mandated or authorized to take, the legal protections afforded
5 reporters, and the consequences for failing to report. The commissioner
6 shall establish standards requiring that beginning January first, two
7 thousand eleven, one hour of the three coursework or training hours
8 shall include information regarding the relationship between child
9 abuse, maltreatment, and domestic violence and the identification of
10 behavioral and physical indicators of domestic violence as defined in
11 section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law. Such
12 coursework or training may also include information regarding the phys-
13 ical and behavioral indicators of the abuse of individuals with mental
14 retardation and other developmental disabilities and voluntary reporting
15 of abused or neglected adults to the office of mental retardation and
16 developmental disabilities or the local adult protective services unit.
17 Each applicant shall provide the department with documentation showing
18 that he or she has completed the required training. The department shall
19 provide an exemption from the child abuse [and], maltreatment, and
20 domestic violence training requirements to any applicant who requests
21 such an exemption and who shows, to the department's satisfaction, that
22 there would be no need because of the nature of his or her practice for
23 him or her to complete such training;
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
