Requires the office for the aging to develop and provide elder abuse prevention training to train senior service centers and entities that contract with the office for the aging and the office of children and family services to provide services to elderly persons in the detection and reporting of elder abuse in consultation with the office of children and family services.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A582A
SPONSOR: Steck TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the elder law, in relation to providing elder abuse
prevention training
PURPOSE:
This bill ensures senior service providers are trained in the detection
and reporting of elder abuse by the New York State of Aging in cooper-
ation with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services,
and the Division of State Police.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 would require the Director of the Office for the Aging, in
cooperation with the New York State Office of Children and Family
Services, and the Division of State Police, to develop procedures,
educational materials, and a training program for senior service provid-
ers that contract with the Office and the Office of Children and Fami-
lies to provide services to elderly persons.
Section 2 would establish the effective date.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):
The A-print amendments would clarify the responsibilities of the agen-
cies when developing the materials and training program, require such
training be administered to employees upon hire and annually thereafter,
and remove certain requirements.
JUSTIFICATION:
Elder abuse takes on numerous forms, including physical, sexual,
emotional and financial. With such abuse against vulnerable persons
increasingly a problem, a proactive approach is necessary. This includes
ensuring senior service providers and employees of senior centers are
properly trained in elder abuse detection, reporting and counseling.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2022 referred to assembly aging
2021 PASSED SENATE
2021 referred to assembly aging 2020 REFERRED TO SENATE AGING
2019 REFERRED TO SENATE AGING
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act would take effect one year after it shall have become law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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582--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Aging -- recommitted to the Committee on Aging in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to providing elder abuse
prevention training
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a new section 219-a to
2 read as follows:
3 § 219-a. Elder abuse awareness and prevention training. 1. The direc-
4 tor shall, in cooperation with the office of children and family
5 services and the division of state police:
6 (a) develop and maintain model procedures and educational materials
7 relating to the identification and reporting of the abuse of adults,
8 including physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, active neglect,
9 passive neglect, self neglect, and financial exploitation, as such terms
10 are defined in section four hundred seventy-three of the social services
11 law. Such procedures and materials shall be disseminated to senior
12 centers and entities that contract with the office and with the office
13 of children and family services to provide services to elderly persons.
14 Such model procedures and educational materials shall be made publicly
15 available on the office's website. Nothing in this section shall
16 prevent the office from utilizing materials in section two hundred
17 nineteen of this title.
18 (b) develop a program to train senior service providers in the
19 detection and reporting of elder abuse. Such program shall also include
20 training on the counseling of elder abuse victims. Such program shall be
21 made publicly available on the office's website.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. Every senior center and entity that contracts with the office or
2 the office of children and family services to provide services to elder-
3 ly persons shall administer such training program to their employees who
4 regularly interact with elderly persons in the course of their duties.
5 Such training shall be administered upon hire and annually thereafter.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
7 law.
