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A05560 Summary:

BILL NOA05560 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORJackson

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Amd §421, Soc Serv L

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Requires training in developmental disability awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity and implicit bias for child protective services workers.

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BILL NOA05560 

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02/14/2025referred to children and families

01/07/2026referred to children and families

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5560

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 14, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Children and Families

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring child
 protective services workers to receive training in developmental disa-
 bility awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity
 and implicit bias

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 5 of section 421 of
 2 the social services law, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 470 of the
 3 laws of 2024, paragraph (c) as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of
 4 2019, are amended to read as follows:
 5 (b) promulgate regulations setting forth training requirements which
 6 shall specify, among other things, that all persons hired by a child
 7 protective service on or after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six
 8 shall have satisfactorily completed a course approved by the department
 9 within the first three months of employment, in the fundamentals of
 10 child protection, provided, however, that on or after April first, two
 11 thousand twenty-five, such course may be satisfactorily completed
 12 through distance learning methods which evince that all participants are
 13 in attendance for the duration of the course and are able to ask ques-
 14 tions of the instructor. Each county shall be authorized to adopt a
 15 local law, ordinance or resolution to provide for a local department of
 16 social services to fulfill the training requirement established by this
 17 paragraph through a distance learning method, excluding the annual in
 18 service training requirement. Such course shall include at least basic
 19 training in the principles and techniques of investigations, including
 20 relationships with other investigative bodies, legal issues in child
 21 protection, and methods of remediation, diagnosis, treatment and
 22 prevention. Such regulations shall also specify that all persons
 23 employed by a child protective service [on or after December first, two

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07587-01-5

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 1 thousand six] shall satisfactorily complete [six] eight hours of annual
 2 [in service] in-service training, beginning in their second year of
 3 employment. Such annual [in service] in-service training shall include,
 4 but is not limited to, review of the protocols for identification and
 5 investigation of child abuse and maltreatment, any developments in
 6 legal, treatment and prevention issues in child protection, [and] review
 7 and analysis of field experiences of child protective services workers,
 8 developmental disability awareness and sensitivity, and cultural compe-
 9 tency, sensitivity and implicit bias training.
 10 (c) require all persons assigned to be a supervisor by a child protec-
 11 tive service on or after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, shall
 12 have satisfactorily completed, within the first three months of employ-
 13 ment as a supervisor or within three months of the effective date of
 14 this paragraph, whichever shall occur first, a course in the fundamen-
 15 tals of child protection developed by the office of children and family
 16 services. All supervisors must complete eight hours of annual in-ser-
 17 vice training beginning in their second year of employment as a supervi-
 18 sor. Such training course shall, among other things, strengthen and