Provides that complaints brought against mental health professionals shall be commenced within ten years of the date of the last treatment of the complainant.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2624
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the statute of limita-
tions for professional misconduct for mental health professionals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6509 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
3 (15) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all complaints of
4 professional misconduct brought against a mental health professional
5 licensed pursuant to article one hundred fifty-three, one hundred
6 fifty-four or one hundred sixty-three of this title shall be commenced
7 within ten years of the date of the last treatment of the complainant.
8 In cases involving the treatment of children under the age of twenty-one
9 years, all complaints of professional misconduct shall be commenced
10 within ten years after the complainant reaches the age of twenty-one
11 years.
12 § 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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