STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6002 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- 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 requiring the commis- sioner to issue regulations to include school mental health practi- tioners in a certificate valid for pupil personnel services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 56 to read as follows: 3 56. The commissioner shall issue regulations to include a school 4 mental health counselor, school marriage and family therapist, school 5 psychoanalyst and a school creative arts therapist in a certificate 6 valid for pupil personnel services. 7 In addition to any other requirement for certificate established in 8 regulations, a candidate for a certificate established by this subdivi- 9 sion shall be registered and hold a valid license pursuant to article 10 one hundred sixty-three of this chapter. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 12 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate- 13 ly the department of education is authorized to promulgate any and all 14 rules and regulations and to take any other measures necessary to imple- 15 ment this act on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01263-01-7