Bill Text: NY S00054 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires at least one full-time licensed or certified social worker to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high school and senior high school throughout the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00054-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           54

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. GOUNARDES, BRISPORT, PARKER, SALAZAR -- 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  a  licensed
          or  certified  social worker in each elementary, intermediate, middle,
          junior high and senior high school

          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 803-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 803-c. Social workers licensed under article one hundred  fifty-four
     4  of  this  chapter  or certified pursuant to rules and regulations estab-
     5  lished by the department, required in elementary, intermediate,  middle,
     6  junior high and senior high schools.  The board of education or trustees
     7  of  every  public  school  district in the state shall on and after July
     8  first, two thousand twenty-three employ and provide access to  at  least
     9  one  licensed  or  certified school social worker in each of the schools
    10  under their jurisdiction exclusive of any school social  workers  funded
    11  or  mandated  through  any special education funding, aid, regulation or
    12  statute.  Such licensed or certified school social worker shall  perform
    13  such duties within their lawful scope of practice.
    14    § 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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