New York S 6919: Enacts the child abuse reporting expansion act

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S06919 Summary:

BILL NOS06919 

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SAME ASSAME AS A08063

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSRCLEARE, WALCZYK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §413, Soc Serv L

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Enacts the child abuse reporting expansion act; relates to making clergy members required reporters of child abuse or mistreatment.

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BILL NOS06919 

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03/26/2025REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6919

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 26, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, CLEARE, WALCZYK -- 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, in relation to establishing the
 "child abuse reporting expansion 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 "child
 2 abuse reporting expansion act".
 3 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 413 of the social
 4 services law, as amended by section 7 of part C of chapter 57 of the
 5 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
 6 (a) The following persons and officials are required to report or
 7 cause a report to be made in accordance with this title when they have
 8 reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them in their
 9 professional or official capacity is an abused or maltreated child, or
 10 when they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is an abused or
 11 maltreated child where the parent, guardian, custodian [or], other
 12 person legally responsible for such child comes before them in their
 13 professional or official capacity and states from personal knowledge
 14 facts, conditions or circumstances which, if correct, would render the
 15 child an abused or maltreated child: any physician; registered physician
 16 assistant; surgeon; medical examiner; coroner; dentist; dental hygien-
 17 ist; osteopath; optometrist; chiropractor; podiatrist; resident; intern;
 18 psychologist; registered nurse; social worker; emergency medical techni-
 19 cian; licensed creative arts therapist; licensed marriage and family
 20 therapist; licensed mental health counselor; licensed psychoanalyst;
 21 licensed behavior analyst; certified behavior analyst assistant; hospi-
 22 tal personnel engaged in the admission, examination, care or treatment
 23 of persons; a Christian Science practitioner; clergy member or other
 24 minister of any religion; school official, which includes but is not
 25 limited to school teacher, school guidance counselor, school psychol-
 26 ogist, school social worker, school nurse, school administrator or other
 27 school personnel required to hold a teaching or administrative license

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07412-01-5

 S. 6919 2

 1 or certificate; full or part-time compensated school employee required
 2 to hold a temporary coaching license or professional coaching certif-
 3 icate; social services worker; employee of a publicly-funded emergency
 4 shelter for families with children; director of a children's overnight
 5 camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp, as such camps are
 6 defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of the public health law;
 7 day care center worker; school-age child care worker; provider of family
 8 or group family day care; employee or volunteer in a residential care
 9 facility for children that is licensed, certified or operated by the
 10 office of children and family services; or any other child care or
 11 foster care worker; mental health professional; substance abuse counse-
 12 lor; alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed by the office of
 13 alcoholism and substance abuse services; employees, who are expected to
 14 have regular and substantial contact with children, of a health home or
 15 health home care management agency contracting with a health home as
 16 designat