New York S 542: Relates to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment

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S00542 Summary:

BILL NOS00542 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00499

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SPONSORTEDISCO

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COSPNSRWALCZYK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §413, Soc Serv L; amd §1392, Pub Health L

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Relates to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment at summer day camps; includes college coaches, athletic directors, professors, graduate assistants and college presidents among those required to report such suspected abuse or maltreatment.

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BILL NOS00542 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 542

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, 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 and the public health law, in
 relation to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreat-
 ment by certain persons

 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 college coach, athletic director, profes-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01852-01-5

 S. 542 2

 1 sor, graduate assistant, college administrator, college president,
 2 school teacher, school guidance counselor, school psychologist, school
 3 social worker, school nurse, school administrator or other school
 4 personnel required to hold a teaching or administrative license or
 5 certificate; full or part-time compensated school employee required to
 6 hold a temporary coaching license or professional coaching certificate;
 7 social services worker; employee of a publicly-funded emergency shelter
 8 for families with children; director or any paid staff member of a chil-
 9 dren's overnight camp, summer day camp or traveling summer day camp, as
 10 such camps are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of the
 11 public health law, such paid staff members shall include, but not be
 12 limited to, any individuals who may interact with children through
 13 employment at such camps or employment at premises where such camps are
 14 located; day care center worker; school-age child care worker; provider
 15 of family or group family day care; employee or volunteer in a residen-
 16 tial care facility for children that is licensed, certified or operated
 17 by the office of children and family services; or any other chi