Bill Text: NY A10645 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the board of education or trustees of every school district to employ at least one certified or licensed mental health counselor in each of the schools under their jurisdiction.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - referred to education [A10645 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10645-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10645
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 10, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to requiring mental
          health counselors in schools
          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 licensed mental health counselors,  as  defined  by
     4  section  eighty-four  hundred  two  of  this  chapter, required in every
     5  elementary, required in intermediate, middle, junior  high,  and  senior
     6  high  schools.  The  board  of  education  or  trustees  of every school
     7  district in the state shall on and after July first, two thousand twenty
     8  employ at least one certified or licensed  mental  health  counselor  in
     9  each  of  the  schools  under their jurisdiction exclusive of any school
    10  mental health counselors funded or mandated through any  special  educa-
    11  tion funding, aid, regulation or statute.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15736-01-8