June 18, 2025

NY Statewatch is reporting that the Governor signed the bill into law a little while ago!!!! YAY!!!!
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From: Lauri Cole <lauri@nyscouncil.org>
Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Subject: Good News, Hopefully
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Today the following legislation was sent to the Governor for final action having recently passed in both houses of the Legislature.  This one is moving fast.  Hopefully that’s a good sign since this is the bill we’ve been tracking and pushing that would extend the time that certain practitioners have within which to obtain the Diagnostic Privilege, from June 2025 to June 2027.  As such, these practitioners would be able to continue to engage in diagnosis and development of assessment-based treatment plans under the appropriate supervision and following all other relevant laws and regulations until 6/2027.  
In the a.m. I will send a letter to the Governor’s Office on behalf of all of our members expressing vigorous support for immediate enactment of this important legislation.  Stand by for more advocacy actions to support this critical bill.

A8045  – Bronson
Extends certain provisions authorizing certain mental health practitioners to
engage in diagnosis and the development of assessment-based treatment plans
06/18/25 delivered to governor

Extends certain provisions authorizing certain mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychoanalysts to engage in diagnosis and the development of assessment-based treatment plans.

2025-A8045 BILL TEXTDOWNLOAD PDF

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8045
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 230 of the laws of 2022, amending the  education
   law  relating  to  diagnostic  privilege, in relation to extending the
   effectiveness of certain provisions thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 6 of chapter 230 of the laws of 2022, amending the
 education law relating to diagnostic privilege, is amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  6. This act shall take effect June 24, 2022; provided however, that
 sections two and three of this act shall  take  effect  June  24,  2024;
 provided, further, that the provisions of section five of this act shall
 expire  and  be  deemed  repealed June 24, [2025] 2027.  Effective imme-
 diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11689-01-5