Bill Text: NY S01195 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of children and family services to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learning.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-29 - SIGNED CHAP.196 [S01195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01195-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1195
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2018, relating  to  authorizing
          and  directing the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the
          effects of trauma on child development and  learning  as  proposed  in
          legislative  bills  numbers  S.8000-B  and  A.10063-B,  in relation to
          authorizing and directing the  commissioner  of  children  and  family
          services to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child develop-
          ment  and  learning; and to repeal certain provisions of the education
          law relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  59  of  section 305 of the education law, as
     2  added by a chapter of the laws  of  2018,  amending  the  education  law
     3  relating  to  authorizing and directing the commissioner of education to
     4  conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learn-
     5  ing, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.8000-B and A.10063-B, is
     6  REPEALED.
     7    § 2. A chapter of the laws of 2018, amending the education law  relat-
     8  ing  to  authorizing  and  directing  the  commissioner  of education to
     9  conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learn-
    10  ing, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.8000-B and A.10063-B, is
    11  amended by adding a new section 1-a to read as follows:
    12    § 1-a. The commissioner of children and family services, in  consulta-
    13  tion  with the commissioner of education and the commissioner of health,
    14  is authorized and directed to conduct a study on the effects  of  trauma
    15  on  child development and learning. Such study shall include, but not be
    16  limited to, the following:
    17    (i) the types of trauma experienced by students;
    18    (ii) the impacts of trauma on child development and learning;
    19    (iii) screening and assessments of trauma available in schools;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iv) programs, interventions, and services related to trauma that  are
     2  available in schools; and
     3    (v)  best  practices  for school personnel in the area of trauma as it
     4  relates to child development and learning.
     5    b. On or before December 31, 2020, the commissioner  of  children  and
     6  family services shall deliver a report of the findings of such study and
     7  recommendations  based  on  such findings to the governor, the temporary
     8  president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority lead-
     9  er of the senate and the minority leader of the  assembly.  Such  report
    10  shall  also  include  such  legislative proposals as the commissioner of
    11  children and family services deems necessary to  implement  his  or  her
    12  recommendations.
    13    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    14  manner as a chapter of the laws of  2018,  amending  the  education  law
    15  relating  to  authorizing and directing the commissioner of education to
    16  conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learn-
    17  ing, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.8000-B  and  A.10063-B,
    18  takes effect.