Bill Text: NY S07805 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the school mental health services program coordinator to provide qualifying public and nonpublic schools with mental health services professionals.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 18-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-05 - referred to education [S07805 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S07805-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7805 IN SENATE February 27, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CROCI -- 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 creating a school mental health services program coordinator The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2801-d 2 to read as follows: 3 § 2801-d. New York state school mental health services program coordi- 4 nator. 1. For purposes of this section, the term "school mental health 5 services program coordinator" shall mean a mental health services 6 professional, with qualifications determined by regulation by the 7 commissioner, whose role and responsibility shall be to work with 8 students, faculty and other mental health and health care professionals 9 to identify, report and address mental health issues of students, facul- 10 ty and administration at any public or non-public school that could pose 11 a risk to public safety. 12 2. Any public or non-public school may employ a mental health services 13 professional, in either the classified or unclassified service, deter- 14 mined in regulation by the commissioner to be qualified, as a mental 15 health services program coordinator. Any such public or non-public 16 school may also contract with the state of New York, a county, city, 17 town or village, or with a private mental health services provider, for 18 the provision of a mental health services professional, determined in 19 regulation by the commissioner to be qualified, to serve as a mental 20 health services program coordinator. 21 3. The commissioner shall, by regulation, determine the qualifications 22 for a mental health services program coordinator. A school district 23 shall be authorized to employ or contract for as many mental health 24 services program coordinators, as such district deems necessary. The 25 commissioner shall by regulation, establish the mandatory reports, the 26 persons or entities with whom such reports shall be filed, and the 27 treatment services that may be offered or directed by a mental health 28 services program coordinator. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14897-03-8S. 7805 2 1 § 2. Section 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 5-b to read as follows: 3 5-b. Mental health services program coordinator aid. Every school 4 district employing or contracting for the services of a mental health 5 services program coordinator, in either the classified or unclassified 6 service, in accordance with section twenty-eight hundred one-d of this 7 chapter, shall be entitled to a payment of mental health services 8 program coordinator aid in the amount of the district's expenditure for 9 the cost of such employment or contracting of such mental health 10 services program coordinator. But in no event shall such aid to such 11 school district be in excess of fifty thousand dollars annually. The 12 mental health services program coordinator aid provided by this subdivi- 13 sion shall be limited to the payment for one mental health services 14 program coordinator per school district. 15 § 3. Section 3602-c of the education law is amended by adding a new 16 subdivision 11 to read as follows: 17 11. Aid shall be made available to all non-public schools under this 18 section, for mental health services program coordinators, in the same 19 manner as for public schools in subdivision five-b of section thirty-six 20 hundred two of this article. 21 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.