Bill Text: NY S08000 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learning and report the findings of such study and any recommendations to the governor and legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - APPROVAL MEMO.18 [S08000 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08000-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         8000--B
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 19, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. BAILEY, BENJAMIN, HAMILTON, HOYLMAN, PARKER, PERAL-
          TA, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to  be
          committed  to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  and
          directing  the  commissioner  of  education  to conduct a study on the
          effects of trauma on child development and learning
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 59 to read as follows:
     3    59.  a. The commissioner is authorized and directed to conduct a study
     4  on the effects of trauma on child development and learning.  Such  study
     5  shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
     6    (i) the types of trauma experienced by students;
     7    (ii) the impacts of trauma on child development and learning;
     8    (iii) screening and assessments of trauma available in schools;
     9    (iv)  programs, interventions, and services related to trauma that are
    10  available in schools; and
    11    (v) best practices for school personnel in the area of  trauma  as  it
    12  relates to child development and learning.
    13    b.  Within  one  year  of  the effective date of this subdivision, the
    14  commissioner shall deliver a report of the findings of  such  study  and
    15  recommendations  based  on  such findings to the governor, the temporary
    16  president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority lead-
    17  er of the senate and the minority leader of the  assembly.  Such  report
    18  shall  also include such legislative proposals as the commissioner deems
    19  necessary to implement his or her recommendations.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13733-06-8
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