What's happening
This bill requires certain healthcare professionals in New York to complete training on identifying and reporting elderly abuse as part of their licensing process.
Why it matters
Expands mandatory training for a wide range of healthcare professionals. (including physicians, nurses, dentists, psychologists, and more), meaning more frontline providers will be equipped to spot and act on signs of elder abuse.
Standardizes the training content. , ensuring that all professionals are taught not just how to identify physical and behavioral indicators of elder abuse, but also the precise legal requirements for reporting, the protections they have as reporters, and the consequences for failing to act—potentially leading to better and more consistent intervention.
Requires documentation and departmental oversight. , making sure that compliance is tracked, and only those trained or properly exempted (based on the nature of their practice) can obtain or renew licenses—creating accountability and potentially reducing gaps in provider knowledge about elder abuse.
Allows for exemptions when justified. , which means professionals whose work does not put them in contact with elderly individuals aren't unnecessarily burdened, keeping the focus on those most likely to encounter and identify abuse.
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Who cares
Headline styles
Train Professionals on Elder Abuse
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
3 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to higher education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3226
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT, GRAF, KOLB -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to professional education in the area of elderly abuse
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraphs b and c of subdivision 3 of section 6507 of the education law, as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, are amended and a new paragraph d is added to read as follows:
b. Review qualifications in connection with licensing requirements; [and]
c. Provide for licensing examinations and reexaminations[.]; and
d. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner shall establish standards requiring that all persons applying, on or after January first, two thousand eighteen, initially, or for the renewal of, a license, registration or limited permit to be a physician, chiropractor, dentist, registered nurse, podiatrist, optometrist, psychiatrist, psychologist or dental hygienist shall, in addition to all the other licensure, certification or permit requirements, have completed two hours of coursework or training regarding the identification and reporting of elderly abuse and maltreatment. The coursework or training shall be obtained from an institution or provider which has been approved by the department to provide such coursework or training. The coursework or training shall include information regarding the physical and behavioral indicators of elderly abuse and maltreatment and shall include but not be limited to, when and how a report of elderly abuse must be made, what other actions the reporter is mandated or authorized to take, the legal protections afforded reporters, and the consequences, if any, for failing to report. Each applicant shall provide the department with documentation showing that he or she has completed the required training. The
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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department shall provide an exemption from the elderly abuse and maltreatment training requirements to any applicant who requests such an exemption and who shows, to the department's satisfaction, that there would be no need because of the nature of his or her practice for him or her to complete such training.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.
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