Bill Text: NY A09746 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires at least a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff member per one thousand students on all SUNY and CUNY campuses and for state colleges and universities to update such ratio every five years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-11 - print number 9746a [A09746 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A09746-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9746--A IN ASSEMBLY February 7, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring at least a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff member per one thousand students on all SUNY and CUNY campuses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 20 to read as follows: 3 20. Through on-campus capacity, each state college or university 4 center of the state university of New York and each state college and 5 university center of the city university of New York shall have at least 6 a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff member per one 7 thousand full-time equivalent students. Two years after the effective 8 date of this subdivision, and once every five years thereafter, each 9 state college and university shall establish a board of advisors and 10 experts and have such board update such ratio based on actual ratios in 11 this state and any new information related to appropriate benchmarks for 12 clinician-to-student ratios; provided, however, such updated ratio shall 13 be at least a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff 14 member per one thousand students. This subdivision shall not be funded 15 by student fees created on or after the effective date of this subdivi- 16 sion. State colleges or universities may seek federal funding or private 17 grants, if available, to support the provisions of this subdivision. 18 § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new 19 subdivision 20 to read as follows: 20 20. Through on-campus capacity, each state college or university 21 center of the state university of New York and each state college and 22 university center of the city university of New York shall have at least 23 a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff member per one 24 thousand full-time equivalent students. Two years after the effective 25 date of this subdivision, and once every five years thereafter, each 26 state college and university shall establish a board of advisors and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14720-03-0A. 9746--A 2 1 experts and have such board update such ratio based on actual ratios in 2 this state and any new information related to appropriate benchmarks for 3 clinician-to-student ratios; provided, however, such updated ratio shall 4 be at least a ratio of one clinical, non-student mental health staff 5 member per one thousand students. This subdivision shall not be funded 6 by student fees created on or after the effective date of this subdivi- 7 sion. State colleges or universities may seek federal funding or private 8 grants, if available, to support the provisions of this subdivision. 9 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 10 the date on which it shall have become a law.
