Bill Text: NY A07158 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes an intergenerational educational and mentoring service program in the state office for the aging to provide assistance by persons age 55 or older to students in elementary schools; details grant funding, based on appropriations; describes reporting requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to aging [A07158 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A07158-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7158 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 23, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, COLTON, J. RIVERA, ABBATE, LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER, DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BENE- DETTO, GOTTFRIED, PAULIN, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to establishing an intergen- erational educational and mentoring service program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a new article 4 to read 2 as follows: 3 ARTICLE IV 4 INTERGENERATIONAL EDUCATIONAL 5 AND MENTORING SERVICE 6 PROGRAM 7 Section 401. Definitions. 8 402. Local intergenerational educational and mentoring service 9 programs. 10 403. Duties of the director. 11 404. Funding. 12 405. Report. 13 § 401. Definitions. As used in this section: 14 1. "Advisory committee" shall mean the advisory committee for the 15 aging established pursuant to section two hundred ten of this chapter. 16 2. "Designated agency" shall have the same meaning as is ascribed to 17 such term by paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section two hundred 18 fourteen of this chapter. 19 3. "Director" shall mean the director of the office for the aging. 20 4. "Intergenerational educational and mentoring program" shall mean a 21 statewide program administered by the director, in consultation with the 22 commissioner of education, that coordinates a network of local intergen- 23 erational educational and mentoring service programs. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10994-01-1A. 7158 2 1 5. "Local intergenerational educational and mentoring service program" 2 shall mean a local project that is selected by the director to be the 3 lead agency in each community to coordinate the delivery of support 4 services by members in local elementary schools. 5 6. "Member" shall mean an individual fifty-five years of age or older 6 who volunteers and participates in the activities of a local intergener- 7 ational educational and mentoring service program assisting students. 8 Provided that no person, who replaces any worker providing such services 9 under a contract with a collective bargaining unit, shall be deemed to 10 be a member. 11 7. "Office" shall mean the office for the aging. 12 § 402. Local intergenerational educational and mentoring service 13 programs. The office, through the intergenerational educational and 14 mentoring service program, shall provide all support and assistance to 15 local intergenerational educational and mentoring service programs 16 necessary to implement the provisions of this article. The director 17 shall, through local intergenerational educational and mentoring service 18 programs, offer adults age fifty-five or older placement in service 19 positions assisting students in elementary school. Such service posi- 20 tions shall include result-oriented tutoring, mentoring and other educa- 21 tional support for children and youth in need. The local intergenera- 22 tional educational and mentoring service program shall provide all 23 necessary training to members. Members shall provide both one-on-one 24 assistance and participate in any other activities which benefit an 25 entire school or organizational community. 26 § 403. Duties of the director. 1. The director shall, in consultation 27 with the commissioner of education, promulgate rules and regulations 28 establishing standards and requirements for local intergenerational 29 educational and mentoring service programs receiving grants pursuant to 30 this article. Such rules and regulations shall include, but not be 31 limited to: 32 (a) procedures for coordinating and supporting the network of local 33 intergenerational educational and mentoring service programs receiving 34 grants pursuant to this article; 35 (b) procedures for working with public and private schools, colleges, 36 universities, community colleges, community based organizations, the 37 National Senior Service Corps and the lead agencies of local intergener- 38 ational educational and mentoring service programs; 39 (c) a procedure for individuals to apply to become and become members; 40 (d) requirements for participation as a member and as a local inter- 41 generational educational and mentoring service program; 42 (e) standards, based on measurable outcomes, for the evaluation of 43 local intergenerational educational and mentoring service programs; and 44 (f) any other requirements the director determines to be reasonable 45 and necessary. 46 2. The rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision one 47 of this section shall provide for the inclusion of local intergenera- 48 tional educational and mentoring service programs in the planning proc- 49 ess by designated agencies. 50 § 404. Funding. 1. The director shall, within the amounts appropriated 51 therefor, award grants on a competitive basis to not-for-profit corpo- 52 rations and local governments seeking to operate a local intergenera- 53 tional educational and mentoring service program. The director shall 54 consider, in the awarding of grants, the regional needs and the compar- 55 ative wealth of the school district.A. 7158 3 1 2. The office may expend not more than three percent of the moneys 2 appropriated, for the purposes of this article, for costs of administer- 3 ing this article. 4 3. Each local intergenerational educational and mentoring service 5 program shall pay not less than ten percent of its expenses with income 6 derived from private fundraising, school districts or any other source. 7 § 405. Report. The director, in consultation with the advisory commit- 8 tee, affected state agencies, affected municipal agencies, local spon- 9 sors and persons involved in local intergenerational educational and 10 mentoring service programs, shall, on or before December thirty-first, 11 two thousand twenty-two, issue a report to the governor, the temporary 12 president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the 13 senate committee on education, the chair of the senate committee on 14 aging, the chair of the assembly committee on education and the chair of 15 the assembly committee on aging, on the projected cost and benefits of 16 establishing uniform standards and requirements for the operation of 17 local intergenerational educational and mentoring service programs. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 19 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 20 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 21 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 22 completed on or before such effective date.
