STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7611 IN SENATE May 11, 2016 ___________ 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