Bill Text: NY A04873 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires at least one full-time licensed or certified school social worker to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high school and senior high school throughout the state.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A04873 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04873-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4873

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. KELLES, JACKSON, COLTON, ZINERMAN, TANNOUSIS,
          DeSTEFANO, LAVINE, EPSTEIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a licensed
          or certified social worker 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-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  803-c. Social workers licensed under article one hundred fifty-four
     4  of this chapter or certified pursuant to rules  and  regulations  estab-
     5  lished  by the department, required in elementary, intermediate, middle,
     6  junior high and senior high schools.  The board of education or trustees
     7  of every public school district in the state shall  on  and  after  July
     8  first,  two  thousand twenty-three employ and provide access to at least
     9  one licensed or certified school social worker in each  of  the  schools
    10  under  their  jurisdiction exclusive of any school social workers funded
    11  or mandated through any special education funding,  aid,  regulation  or
    12  statute.   Such licensed or certified school social worker shall perform
    13  such duties within their lawful scope of practice.
    14    § 2. 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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