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NY S03760
Bill
Status
1/29/2025
Primary Sponsor
Cordell Cleare
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AI Summary
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Expands the definition of "mental health care provider" in sex offense laws to include anyone licensed, required to be licensed, or holding themselves out as licensed in medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, or psychoanalysis
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Adds life coaches and anyone who "otherwise provides mental health care" services to the definition, regardless of licensure status
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Extends the timeframe for when sexual conduct constitutes an offense to cover the entire course of continuing treatment, not just during specific treatment sessions, consultations, interviews, or examinations
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Applies to charges of third-degree rape, fourth-degree aggravated sexual abuse, and third-degree sexual abuse committed by health care or mental health care providers against clients/patients
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law
Legislative Description
Expands the definition of mental health care provider for the purposes of the penal law; expands the conditions under which a person is deemed incapable of consent.
Last Action
REFERRED TO CODES
1/7/2026