Senate Bill S8566

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S8566 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A63
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§305 & 3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10387
2019-2020: A3576
2023-2024: S1577, A902

2021-S8566 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and provide funding for such.

2021-S8566 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8566 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8566
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 14, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- 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 the  depart-
   ment  of  education to report information regarding counselors, social
   workers and psychologists in schools
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
   57.  A.  THE  COMMISSIONER SHALL SUBMIT TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY
 PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND  THE  SPEAKER  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY,  A  REPORT
 REGARDING  SCHOOL  COUNSELORS, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS AND SCHOOL PSYCHOL-
 OGISTS FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR. SUCH REPORT SHALL INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT
 BE  LIMITED  TO: (I) THE NUMBER OF FULL AND PART-TIME SCHOOL COUNSELORS,
 SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS IN EACH SCHOOL, (II)  THE
 RATIO  OF  STUDENTS  TO  THE  NUMBER  OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS, THE RATIO OF
 STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF  SCHOOL  SOCIAL  WORKERS,  AND  THE  RATIO  OF
 STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS IN EACH SCHOOL, AND (III)
 WHETHER  THE  SCHOOL  COUNSELOR, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER OR SCHOOL PSYCHOL-
 OGIST IS PROVIDING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE TO MORE THAN ONE SCHOOL.
   B. AFTER SUCH REPORT IS  ISSUED,  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  PREPARE  A
 PROPOSAL  ON  HOW  TO  INCREASE  THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS, SCHOOL
 SOCIAL WORKERS AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS TO MEET THE NATIONALLY  ACCEPTED
 RATIO  OF STUDENTS TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS, RATIO OF STUDENTS
 TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS, AND RATIO  OF  STUDENTS  TO  THE
 NUMBER  OF  SCHOOL  PSYCHOLOGISTS  WITHIN  NEW  YORK STATE SUCH AS THOSE
 RECOMMENDED BY THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, THE AMERI-
 CAN SCHOOL COUNSELORS ASSOCIATION AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL
 PSYCHOLOGISTS. WHEN PREPARING SUCH PROPOSAL, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL TAKE
 INTO CONSIDERATION THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND
 THE REGION IN WHICH SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT IS LOCATED.
   C. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL  HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02539-01-1
              

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