Bill Text: NY A10154 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-26 - print number 10154a [A10154 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10154-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10154--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 20, 2018
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- 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 psychol-
          ogist 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. Full-time school psychologists required in elementary, inter-
     4  mediate, middle, junior high and senior high  schools.    The  board  of
     5  education or trustees of every school district in the state shall on and
     6  after July first, two thousand eighteen employ at least one certified or
     7  licensed  school  psychologist in each of the schools under their juris-
     8  diction exclusive of any school psychologists funded or mandated through
     9  any special education funding, aid, regulation or statute.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15157-02-8