Bill Text: NY A09533 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in education [A09533 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09533-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9533--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 19, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ORTIZ, QUART -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  803-b. 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 eighteen employ and provide access to at least one
     9  licensed or certified school social worker in each of the schools  under
    10  their  jurisdiction  exclusive  of  any  school social workers funded or
    11  mandated through any special education funding, aid, regulation or stat-
    12  ute.  Such licensed or certified school social worker shall perform such
    13  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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