Bill Text: NY S04190 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Clarifies the definitions of vocational educational training and educational activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-16 - PRINT NUMBER 4190A [S04190 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S04190-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4190--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
April 16, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, DILAN, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, PARK-
ER, SAMPSON, SCHNEIDERMAN, STAVISKY, THOMPSON -- (at request of the
Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance) -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Social Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to clarifying the
definitions of vocational educational training and educational activ-
ities
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of section 336 of the social
2 services law, as amended by chapter 214 of the laws of 1998, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (h) vocational educational training as time limited by federal law.
5 For the purposes of this title, "vocational educational training" shall
6 include but not be limited to organized educational programs offering a
7 sequence of courses which are directly related to the preparation of
8 individuals for current or emerging occupations [requiring other than a
9 baccalaureate or advanced degree] INCLUDING PROGRAMS THAT REQUIRE UP TO
10 FOUR YEARS OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION. Such programs shall include
11 competency-based applied learning which contributes to an individual's
12 academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning, and problem-solving skills,
13 work attitudes, general employability skills, and the occupational-spe-
14 cific skills necessary for economic independence. Such term also
15 includes applied technology education;
16 S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 336-a of the social services law, as
17 amended by section 148 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is
18 amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 1. Social services districts shall make available vocational educa-
2 tional training and educational activities. Such activities may include
3 but need not be limited to, high school education or education designed
4 to prepare a participant for a high school equivalency certificate,
5 basic and remedial education, education in English proficiency and no
6 more than a total of [two] FOUR years of post-secondary education (or
7 the part-time equivalent if full-time study would constitute an undue
8 hardship) in any of the following providers which meet the performance
9 or assessment standards established in regulations by the commissioner
10 for such providers: a community college, licensed trade school, regis-
11 tered business school, or a two-year OR FOUR-YEAR college; provided,
12 however, that such post-secondary education must be necessary to the
13 attainment of the participant's individual employment goal as set forth
14 in the employability plan and such goal must relate directly to obtain-
15 ing useful employment in a recognized occupation. WHEN MAKING ANY
16 ASSIGNMENT TO ANY EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION,
17 SUCH ASSIGNMENT SHALL BE PERMITTED ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH ASSIGN-
18 MENT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE INDIVIDUAL'S ASSESSMENT AND EMPLOYMENT PLAN
19 GOALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE AND THREE
20 HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE-A OF THIS TITLE.
21 S 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 131-n of the social
22 services law, as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 2003, is amended
23 to read as follows:
24 (c) an amount up to one thousand four hundred dollars in a separate
25 bank account established by an individual while currently in receipt of
26 assistance for the purpose of paying tuition at a two-year OR FOUR-YEAR
27 accredited post-secondary educational institution, so long as the funds
28 are not used for any other purpose,
29 S 4. This act shall take effect April 1, 2010; provided, however, that
30 the amendments to paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 131-n of the
31 social services law made by section three of this act shall not affect
32 the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
