New York S 6999: Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"

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S06999 Summary:

BILL NOS06999 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00780

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SPONSORSTAVISKY

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COSPNSRBROUK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §7704, Ed L

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Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"; provides that for licensure as a clinical social worker, an applicant may satisfy the experience requirements under supervision of a mental health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article one hundred sixty-three of the education law.

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BILL NOS06999 

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03/28/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6999

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 enacting the "Super-
 vising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Thera-
 py (SUPPORT) act"

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Supervis-
 2 ing Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy
 3 (SUPPORT) act".
 4 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 7704 of the education
 5 law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
 6 as follows:
 7 (c) Experience: have at least three years full-time supervised post-
 8 graduate clinical social work experience in diagnosis, psychotherapy,
 9 and assessment-based treatment plans, or its part-time equivalent,
 10 obtained over a continuous period not to exceed six years, under the
 11 supervision, satisfactory to the department, of a psychiatrist, a
 12 licensed psychologist, [or] a licensed clinical social worker in a
 13 facility setting or other supervised settings approved by the department
 14 or a mental health practitioner who has been granted the privilege to
 15 diagnose and develop assessment-based treatment plans under article one
 16 hundred sixty-three of this title. Satisfactory experience obtained in
 17 an entity operating under a waiver issued by the department pursuant to
 18 section sixty-five hundred three-a of this title may be accepted by the
 19 department, notwithstanding that such experience may have been obtained
 20 prior to the effective date of such section sixty-five hundred three-a
 21 and/or prior to the entity having obtained a waiver. The department may,
 22 for good cause shown, accept satisfactory experience that was obtained
 23 in a setting that would have been eligible for a waiver but which has
 24 not obtained a waiver from the department or experience that was

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00963-01-5

 S. 6999 2

 1 obtained in good faith by the applicant under the belief that appropri-
 2 ate authorization had been obtained for the experience, provided that
 3 such experience meets all other requirements for acceptable experience;
 4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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