Bill Text: NY S08000 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learning and report the findings of such study and any recommendations to the governor and legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - APPROVAL MEMO.18 [S08000 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                    IN SENATE
                                     March 19, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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 training for
          teachers and administrators in the area of childhood trauma
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  3004 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
     3    4-a.  In recognizing the effects of trauma on the  child  development,
     4  the  commissioner shall prescribe regulations requiring that all persons
     5  applying on or after January first, two thousand nineteen for a teaching
     6  certificate or license as a special education teacher for  the  purposes
     7  pursuant  to  article  eighty-nine of this chapter shall, in addition to
     8  all the other certification or licensing  requirements,  have  completed
     9  enhanced  course work or training in the area of trauma as it relates to
    10  children and its impact on child development and learning. In  addition,
    11  such  regulations  shall  require that enhanced training in the needs of
    12  children who have experienced  trauma  be  provided  to  each  certified
    13  school  administrator  or supervisor assigned on or after January first,
    14  two thousand nineteen to serve as a  school  administrator  including  a
    15  special  education administrator.  Such training shall be provided prior
    16  to, or as soon as practicable following, assignment as a school adminis-
    17  trator or special education administrator. Individuals serving as school
    18  administrators or special education administrators as of January  first,
    19  two  thousand  nineteen  shall  complete such training by such date. The
    20  enhanced course work or training shall be obtained from  an  institution
    21  or  provider  which  has been approved by the department to provide such
    22  course work or training in the needs of those who have experienced trau-
    23  ma, provided that enhanced training for certified school  administrators
    24  or  supervisors  that meets standards prescribed by the commissioner may
    25  be included in the  professional  development  provided  by  the  school
    26  district  or  board of cooperative educational services to such adminis-
    27  trators or supervisors.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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