Assembly Bill A6844

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of education to study and report on the provision of services to public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A6844 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2866
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education, Commissioner of
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8077, S5369
2017-2018: A6373, S2105
2019-2020: A6433, S311
2021-2022: S3682
2023-2024: S2358

2015-A6844 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of education to study and report on the provision of services to public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.

2015-A6844 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6844

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 6, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
  MOYA, RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Education

AN ACT to direct the commissioner of education to examine, evaluate  and
  make  recommendations  on  the  provision of services by public school
  guidance counselors to students in grades 8 through 12

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The commissioner of education is hereby directed to exam-
ine, evaluate and make recommendations on the provision of  services  to
public  school  students  in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.
Such commissioner shall study, with particular care:
  (a) the ratio of guidance counselors to students in grades  8  through
12, by public school, school district and statewide;
  (b)  the  amount  of  time  each  guidance  counselor spends with each
student in grades 8 through 12 during a school year, by  public  school,
school district and statewide;
  (c)  the number of students in grades 8 through 12 each guidance coun-
selor interviews during a  school  quarter,  by  public  school,  school
district and statewide;
  (d)  the  number  of  students in each grade that are interviewed by a
guidance counselor during a school quarter,  by  public  school,  school
district and statewide;
  (e)  the  services guidance counselors provide to students in grades 8
through 12, by public school and school district;
  (f) the number of hours guidance counselors are available to  students
in  grades  8  through  12  each  school  day,  by public school, school
district and statewide;
  (g) the types and frequency of guidance counselor services that should
be provided to public school students in grades 8 through 12.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06386-01-5

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