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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S08899 Summary: BILL NO S08899 &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A09321

&nbsp SPONSOR STAVISKY &nbsp COSPNSR SUTTON &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Amd §§8402 & 8403, Ed L &nbsp Provides for supervision by certain marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors who meet certain experience requirements.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

8899

IN SENATE

January 14, 2026 ___________

Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to supervision by certain marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 8402 of the 2 education law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2010, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (c) Experience: An applicant shall complete a minimum of three thou- 5 sand hours of post-master's supervised experience relevant to the prac- 6 tice of mental health counseling satisfactory to the board and in 7 accordance with the commissioner's regulations . A licensed and regis- 8 tered marriage and family therapist may provide post-master's super- 9 vision if the licensed marriage and family therapist, at minimum, meets 10 the following requirements (i) is licensed and registered for at least 11 three years, (ii) has been awarded the diagnostic privilege set forth in 12 section eighty-four hundred one-a of this article, and (iii) has 13 completed a total of three semester hours or thirty-six hours of contin- 14 uing education in clinical counseling supervision and professional 15 orientation and ethics in mental health counseling as determined by the 16 department . Satisfactory experience obtained in an entity operating 17 under a waiver issued by the department pursuant to section sixty-five 18 hundred three-a of this title may be accepted by the department, 19 notwithstanding that such experience may have been obtained prior to the 20 effective date of such section sixty-five hundred three-a and/or prior 21 to the entity having obtained a waiver. The department may, for good 22 cause shown, accept satisfactory experience that was obtained in a 23 setting that would have been eligible for a waiver but which has not 24 obtained a waiver from the department or experience that was obtained in 25 good faith by the applicant under the belief that appropriate authori- 26 zation had been obtained for the experience, provided that such experi- 27 ence meets all other requirements for acceptable experience;

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14150-01-5

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1 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 8403 of the education 2 law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 (c) Experience: The completion of at least one thousand five hundred 5 client contact hours of supervised clinical experience, by persons hold- 6 ing a degree from a master's or doctoral program, or the substantial 7 equivalent, in accordance with the commissioner's regulations or the 8 completion of at least one thousand five hundred client hours of super- 9 vised post-master's clinical experience in marriage and family therapy 10 satisfactory to the department in accordance with the commissioner's 11 regulations . A licensed and registered mental health counselor may 12 provide supervision if the licensed mental health counselor, at minimum, 13 meets the following requirements (i) is licensed and registered for at 14 least three years, (ii) has been awarded the diagnostic privilege set 15 forth in section eighty-four hundred one-a of this article, and (iii) 16 has completed a total of three semester hours or thirty-six hours of 17 continuing education in clinical counseling supervision and professional 18 orientation and ethics in marriage and family therapy as determined by 19 the department . Satisfactory experience obtained in an entity operating 20 under a waiver issued by the department pursuant to section sixty-five 21 hundred three-a of this title may be accepted by the department, 22 notwithstanding that such experience may have been obtained prior to the 23 effective date of such section sixty-five hundred three-a and/or prior 24 to the entity having obtained a waiver. The department may, for good 25 cause shown, accept satisfactory experience that was obtained in a 26 setting that would have been eligible for a waiver but which has not 27 obtained a waiver from the department or experience that was obtained in 28 good faith by the applicant under the belief that appropriate authori- 29 zation had been obtained for the experience, provided that such experi- 30 ence meets all other requirements for acceptable experience; 31 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 32 it shall have become a law.

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