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    S. 2120--A                                            A. 3027--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2015
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IN  SENATE  -- Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, BRESLIN, DILAN, ESPAILLAT --
  read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
  the Committee on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee
  on  Children  and Families in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
  recommitted to said committee

IN  ASSEMBLY  --  Introduced  by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, BLAKE, WALKER,
  SANTABARBARA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,  DAVILA,  DUPREY,
  HOOPER,  RIVERA, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee on Children  and
  Families  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to staff qualifica-
  tions for non-supervisory and supervisory  child  protective  services
  workers

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 4 of section  421  of
the  social  services law, paragraph (a) as amended and paragraph (b) as
added by chapter 525 of the  laws  of  2006,  are  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (a)  after  consultation  with  the  local  child protective services,
promulgate regulations relating to staff qualifications for non-supervi-
sory child protective services workers, prescribing  [any]  AT  LEAST  A
baccalaureate  or  equivalent college degree IN SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHOLOGY,
COUNSELING and/or relevant [human service] experience  IN  LAW  ENFORCE-
MENT,  COUNSELING  OR  WORK  WITH  MENTAL HEALTH OR COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED
PERSONS AND CHILDREN as requirements. Such requirements shall not  apply
to persons currently employed by such child protective services who were

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01558-02-6
              

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hired  before [January first, nineteen hundred eighty-six] THE EFFECTIVE
DATE OF THE CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO  THOUSAND  SIXTEEN  THAT  AMENDED
THIS PARAGRAPH.
  (b)  after  consultation  with  the  local  child protective services,
promulgate  regulations  relating  to  staff  qualifications  for  those
assigned  to  be  supervisors of child protective services[, prescribing
any baccalaureate or equivalent college  degree  and/or  relevant  human
services experience as requirements]. Provided, however, that such regu-
lations shall at a minimum provide that those assigned to be supervisors
of  child  protective  services have [either a baccalaureate] AT LEAST A
MASTER'S degree [or three] IN SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHOLOGY, COUNSELING AND/OR
TEN years of relevant work experience in [a human  services  field]  LAW
ENFORCEMENT,  COUNSELING  OR  WORK  WITH  MENTAL  HEALTH  OR COGNITIVELY
IMPAIRED PERSONS AND CHILDREN.   Such requirements shall  not  apply  to
persons  currently assigned to be a child protective services supervisor
who were hired before [December first, two thousand six]  THE  EFFECTIVE
DATE  OF  THE  CHAPTER  OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN THAT AMENDED
THIS PARAGRAPH.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.