Bill Text: NY S01771 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1771 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers and provide such report to the governor and legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S01771 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01771-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1771
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 16, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN  ACT requiring the department of education to study and report on the
          self-identified ethnicity and  multilingual  status  of  all  licensed
          social workers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The department of education shall prepare  a  comprehensive
     2  study  and  report  on  the  self-identified  ethnicity and multilingual
     3  status of all licensed social workers.  Such  data  shall  be  collected
     4  during the licensure and re-registration process of such individuals and
     5  then compiled in an easily readable format.
     6    §  2.  The  commissioner of education shall provide such report to the
     7  governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the  assembly
     8  no  later  than  one  year  after  the effective date of this act.  Such
     9  report shall be updated and delivered  annually  for  a  total  of  five
    10  years.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07187-01-9