Bill Text: NY S02107 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring training for teachers and administrators in the area of childhood trauma after January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-16 - PRINT NUMBER 2107A [S02107 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02107-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2107--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  BAILEY, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Education  --
          recommitted  to  the  Committee on Education in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 child development, the
     4  commissioner shall prescribe  regulations  requiring  that  all  persons
     5  applying  on  or  after  January  first,  two thousand twenty-five for a
     6  teaching certificate or license, including but not limited to a  certif-
     7  icate  or  license  valid  for  service as a classroom teacher, teaching
     8  assistant, pupil personnel service professional, school administrator or
     9  supervisor or superintendent of schools, shall, in addition to  all  the
    10  other  certification  or licensing requirements, have completed enhanced
    11  course work or training in the area of trauma as it relates to  children
    12  and  its  impact  on  child  development and learning. In addition, such
    13  regulations shall require that enhanced training in the needs  of  chil-
    14  dren  who  have  experienced trauma be provided to each certified school
    15  administrator or supervisor assigned on  or  after  January  first,  two
    16  thousand  twenty-five  to serve as a school administrator including, but
    17  not limited to, a special education administrator.  Such training  shall
    18  be provided prior to, or as soon as practicable following, assignment as
    19  a  school  administrator or special education administrator. Individuals
    20  serving as school administrators or special education administrators  as
    21  of  January first, two thousand twenty-five shall complete such training
    22  by such date. The enhanced course work or  training  shall  be  obtained

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  from  an  institution or provider which has been approved by the depart-
     2  ment to provide such course work or training in the needs of  those  who
     3  have  experienced  trauma, provided that enhanced training for certified
     4  school  administrators or supervisors that meets standards prescribed by
     5  the  commissioner  may  be  included  in  the  professional  development
     6  provided  by  the  school  district  or board of cooperative educational
     7  services to such administrators or supervisors.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.