New York S 3444: Includes certain employees or volunteers of youth organizations as mandated reporters

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S03444 Summary:

BILL NOS03444 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHARCKHAM

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §413, Soc Serv L; amd §404, N-PC L; add §111, Exec L

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Includes certain employees or volunteers of not-for-profit youth organizations whose primary purpose is to interact with youth through activities, events or gatherings as mandated reporters.

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BILL NOS03444 

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01/27/2025REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3444

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, the not-for-profit corporation
 law and the executive law, in relation to including certain employees
 or volunteers of youth organizations as mandated reporters

 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.
 LBD07175-01-5

 S. 3444 2

 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; employee of a publ-
 4 icly-funded emergency shelter for families with children; director of a
 5 children's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp,
 6 as such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of the
 7 public health law; employee or volunteer of a not-for-profit organiza-
 8 tion with the primary purpose of engaging with youth under the age of
 9 eighteen through activities, events, or gatherings, as designated by the
 10 commissioner where such employee or volunteer is likely to have regular
 11 and substantial contact with such youth; day care center worker; school-
 12 age child care worker; provider of family or group family day care;
 13 employee or volunteer in a residential care facility for children that
 14 is licensed, certified or operated by the office of children and family
 15 services; or any other child care or foster care worker; mental health
 16 professional; substan