Bill Text: NY S05558 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending the timeframe for school professionals applying for certification to complete training on the social patterns of harassment, bullying and discrimination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-30 - SIGNED CHAP.90 [S05558 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S05558-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5558
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 20, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  FLANAGAN  --  (at  request  of the State Education
         Department) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be
         committed to the Committee on Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to extending the time-
         frame for school professionals applying for certification to  complete
         training  on the social patterns of harassment, bullying and discrimi-
         nation
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 14 of the education law, as added
    2  by chapter 102 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    3    5. The commissioner shall prescribe regulations  that  school  profes-
    4  sionals  applying  on  or  after [July first] DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, two
    5  thousand thirteen for a certificate or license, including but not limit-
    6  ed to a certificate or license valid for service as a classroom teacher,
    7  school counselor, school  psychologist,  school  social  worker,  school
    8  administrator or supervisor or superintendent of schools shall, in addi-
    9  tion   to  all  other  certification  or  licensing  requirements,  have
   10  completed training on the social patterns of  harassment,  bullying  and
   11  discrimination,  as defined in section eleven of this article, including
   12  but not limited to those acts based on a person's  actual  or  perceived
   13  race,  color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious
   14  practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex, the identifica-
   15  tion and mitigation of  harassment,  bullying  and  discrimination,  and
   16  strategies  for  effectively  addressing problems of exclusion, bias and
   17  aggression in educational settings.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
   19  manner as chapter 102 of the laws of 2012 takes effect.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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