Senate Bill S87

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers

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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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2025-S87 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8482
2019-2020: S1771
2021-2022: S626
2023-2024: S462

2025-S87 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers and provide such report to the governor and legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act.

2025-S87 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    87
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SEPULVEDA,  FERNANDEZ  --  read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Higher
   Education
 
 AN  ACT requiring the department of education to study and report on the
   self-identified ethnicity and  multilingual  status  of  all  licensed
   social workers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The department of education shall prepare  a  comprehensive
 study  and  report  on  the  self-identified  ethnicity and multilingual
 status of all licensed social workers.  Such  data  shall  be  collected
 during the licensure and re-registration process of such individuals and
 then compiled in an easily readable format.
   §  2.  The  commissioner of education shall provide such report to the
 governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker  of  the
 assembly  no  later  than one year after the effective date of this act.
 Such report shall be updated and delivered annually for a total of  five
 years.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00652-01-5

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