Bill Text: NY A01433 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires at least one full-time psychologist to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school throughout the state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A01433 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01433-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1433 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a psychol- ogist in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 803-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 803-b. Full-time school psychologists required in elementary, inter- 4 mediate, middle, junior high and senior high schools. The board of 5 education or trustees of every school district in the state shall on and 6 after July first, two thousand nineteen employ at least one certified or 7 licensed school psychologist in each of the schools under their juris- 8 diction exclusive of any school psychologists funded or mandated through 9 any special education funding, aid, regulation or statute. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05276-01-9
