Bill Text: NY A10925 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10925 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers and provide such report to the governor and legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - referred to higher education [A10925 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10925-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10925

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 17, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cruz) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT requiring the department of education to study and report on  the
          self-identified  ethnicity  and  multilingual  status  of all licensed
          social workers

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The department of education shall prepare a comprehensive
     2  study and report  on  the  self-identified  ethnicity  and  multilingual
     3  status  of  all  licensed  social  workers. Such data shall be collected
     4  during the licensure and re-registration process of such individuals and
     5  then compiled in an easily readable format.
     6    § 2. The commissioner of education shall provide such  report  to  the
     7  governor,  temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly
     8  no later than one year after the effective  date  of  this  act.    Such
     9  report  shall  be  updated  and  delivered  annually for a total of five
    10  years.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07187-01-9