Bill Text: NY A02136 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that all holders of a professional certificate in the classroom teaching service, holders of a level III teaching assistant certificate and holders of a professional certificate in the educational leadership service receive a minimum of three hours of training in mental health per year.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A02136 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A02136-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2136 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FERNANDEZ, CRUZ, ABBATE, COLTON, SAYEGH, TAYLOR, COOK, ASHBY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain persons receive mental health training each year The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 804 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 8-a to read as follows: 3 8-a. All holders of a professional certificate in the classroom teach- 4 ing service, holders of a level III teaching assistant certificate and 5 holders of a professional certificate in the educational leadership 6 service pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section three 7 thousand six-a of this chapter shall receive a minimum of three hours of 8 training in mental health per year. The instructional content of such 9 training shall be consistent with mental health curriculum guidelines 10 established by the commissioner pursuant to this section. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05498-01-1