New York S 4141: Expands the persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected child abuse

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S04141 Summary:

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Expands the persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected child abuse to include employees, volunteers, or agents of any corporate entity having an agreement with a municipality as a homeless shelter provider and the development of procedures related thereto.

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02/03/2025REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4141

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 3, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 expanding the
 persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected child abuse to
 include employees, volunteers, or agents of any corporate entity
 having an agreement with a municipality as a homeless shelter provider
 and the development of procedures related thereto

 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 chapter 733 of the laws of 2023, is amended
 3 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-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07723-01-5

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 1 lor, school psychologist, school social worker, school nurse, school
 2 administrator or other school personnel required to hold a teaching or
 3 administrative license or certificate; full or part-time compensated
 4 school employee required to hold a temporary coaching license or profes-
 5 sional coaching certificate; social services worker; employee of a publ-
 6 icly-funded emergency shelter for families with children; director of a
 7 children's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp,
 8 as such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of the
 9 public health law; day care center worker; school-age child care worker;
 10 provider of family or group family day care; employee or volunteer in a
 11 residential care facility for children that is licensed, certified or
 12 operated by the office of children and family services; or any other
 13 child care or foster care worker; mental health professional; substance
 14 abuse counselor; alcoholism counselor; all persons credentialed by the
 15 office of [alcoholism and substance abuse] addiction services and
 16 supports; employees, who are expecte