STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 2120--A A. 3027--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2015
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, BRESLIN, DILAN, ESPAILLAT --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee
on Children and Families in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, BLAKE, WALKER,
SANTABARBARA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DAVILA, DUPREY,
HOOPER, RIVERA, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee on Children and
Families 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 social services law, in relation to staff qualifica-
tions for non-supervisory and supervisory child protective services
workers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 4 of section 421 of
2 the social services law, paragraph (a) as amended and paragraph (b) as
3 added by chapter 525 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as
4 follows:
5 (a) after consultation with the local child protective services,
6 promulgate regulations relating to staff qualifications for non-supervi-
7 sory child protective services workers, prescribing [any] at least a
8 baccalaureate or equivalent college degree in social work, psychology,
9 counseling and/or relevant [human service] experience in law enforce-
10 ment, counseling or work with mental health or cognitively impaired
11 persons and children as requirements. Such requirements shall not apply
12 to persons currently employed by such child protective services who were
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 hired before [January first, nineteen hundred eighty-six] the effective
2 date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand sixteen that amended
3 this paragraph.
4 (b) after consultation with the local child protective services,
5 promulgate regulations relating to staff qualifications for those
6 assigned to be supervisors of child protective services[, prescribing
7 any baccalaureate or equivalent college degree and/or relevant human
8 services experience as requirements]. Provided, however, that such regu-
9 lations shall at a minimum provide that those assigned to be supervisors
10 of child protective services have [either a baccalaureate] at least a
11 master's degree [or three] in social work, psychology, counseling and/or
12 ten years of relevant work experience in [a human services field] law
13 enforcement, counseling or work with mental health or cognitively
14 impaired persons and children. Such requirements shall not apply to
15 persons currently assigned to be a child protective services supervisor
16 who were hired before [December first, two thousand six] the effective
17 date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand sixteen that amended
18 this paragraph.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
