Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Mar 26, 2019 |
recommit, enacting clause stricken |
Jan 14, 2019 |
referred to education |
Senate Bill S1409
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C) 60th Senate District
(R, C, IP) 54th Senate District
2019-S1409 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S1409 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and provide funding for such.
2019-S1409 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1409 SPONSOR: RITCHIE TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the depart- ment of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools PURPOSE: To gather information in order to provide better counseling services to our students throughout the state by ensuring the state meets the nationally accepted level of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists per school here. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 adds new subdivision 57 to section 305, which directs the commissioner of education to submit a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly, and specifies
2019-S1409 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1409 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, AKSHAR, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, HELMING, JACOBS, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, ROBACH, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the depart- ment of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 57 to read as follows: 57. A. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SUBMIT TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, A REPORT REGARDING SCHOOL COUNSELORS, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS AND SCHOOL PSYCHOL- OGISTS FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR. SUCH REPORT SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO: (I) THE NUMBER OF FULL AND PART-TIME SCHOOL COUNSELORS, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS IN EACH SCHOOL, (II) THE RATIO OF STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS, THE RATIO OF STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS, AND THE RATIO OF STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS IN EACH SCHOOL, AND (III) WHETHER THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER OR SCHOOL PSYCHOL- OGIST IS PROVIDING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE TO MORE THAN ONE SCHOOL. B. AFTER SUCH REPORT IS ISSUED, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PREPARE A PROPOSAL ON HOW TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS TO MEET THE NATIONALLY ACCEPTED RATIO OF STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS, RATIO OF STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS, AND RATIO OF STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS WITHIN NEW YORK STATE SUCH AS THOSE RECOMMENDED BY THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, THE AMERI- CAN SCHOOL COUNSELORS ASSOCIATION AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS. WHEN PREPARING SUCH PROPOSAL, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL TAKE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01636-01-9
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