Bill Text: NY S07611 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations to include school mental health practitioners in a certificate valid for pupil personnel services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-27 - PRINT NUMBER 7611A [S07611 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7611
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2016
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        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 the establishment of a
          school certificate title for school mental health practitioners
          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 55 to read as follows:
     3    55.  The  commissioner  shall issue regulations to establish a certif-
     4  icate valid for pupil personnel services as a school mental health coun-
     5  selor, school marriage and family therapist, school psychoanalyst and  a
     6  school creative arts therapist.
     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.
                                                                   LBD15034-01-6