Bill Text: NY A02557 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-07 - print number 2557a [A02557 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02557-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2557--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. JOYNER, LAVINE, DICKENS, COOK, MOSLEY, D'URSO,
          JEAN-PIERRE,  BARRON,  GLICK,  ARROYO,  RIVERA,  WILLIAMS,  TAYLOR  --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. EPSTEIN, NIOU, SIMON -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee
          on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  authorizing  and  directing  the  commissioner  of education to
          conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers  and  how
          being a caregiver impacts their education

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of  education  is  hereby  authorized  and
     2  directed to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers
     3  and  how  being  a  caregiver  impacts the child's education. "Caregiver
     4  children" shall be defined as students with sick, disabled,  or  elderly
     5  relatives that such students care for outside of school. The commission-
     6  er  of  education  shall give recommendations based on the study's find-
     7  ings. Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
     8    (a) the number of caregiver children within the state;
     9    (b) the amount of time caregiver children spend caring for relatives;
    10    (c) how being a caregiver child impacts the child's education;
    11    (d) the circumstances that lead to a child becoming a caregiver child;
    12  and
    13    (e) any recommendations on how  to  reduce  the  negative  educational
    14  impacts of being a caregiver child.
    15    §  2.  Within  one year of the effective date of this act, the commis-
    16  sioner of education shall submit  a  report  of  his  or  her  findings,
    17  conclusions and recommendations to the governor, the temporary president
    18  of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of the senate
    19  and  assembly  committees  on  education. Such report shall also include
    20  such legislative proposals  as  such  commissioner  deems  necessary  to
    21  implement his or her recommendations.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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