NY State Senate Bill 2009-S5986

Senate Bill S5986

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires all teachers to complete training in area of autism and directs the commissioner of education to assure that such training is included in all teacher certificates

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- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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Jan 06, 2010	referred to education
Jun 19, 2009	referred to rules

2009-S5986 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8996
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §3004, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S3416, A4949
2013-2014: S3189

2009-S5986 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all teachers to complete training in area of autism and directs the commissioner of education to assure that such training is included in all teacher certification programs.

2009-S5986 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S5986 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5986

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 19, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  STACHOWSKI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all teachers
  to complete training in the area of autism and directing  the  commis-
  sioner  of  education  to assure that such training is included in all
  teacher certification programs

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 3004 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 484 of the laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  4.  a. The commissioner shall prescribe regulations requiring that all
persons applying on or after September second, two thousand [nine] ELEV-
EN for a teaching certificate or license as a [special education] teach-
er for the purposes pursuant to  article  eighty-nine  of  this  chapter
shall,  in addition to all the other certification or licensing require-
ments, have completed enhanced course work or training in area of  chil-
dren  with  autism.  In  addition,  such  regulations shall require that
enhanced training in the needs of autistic children be provided to  each
certified  school  administrator  or  supervisor  assigned  on  or after
September second, two thousand nine to  serve  as  a  special  education
administrator.   Such training shall be provided prior to, or as soon as
practicable following, assignment as a special education  administrator.
Individuals  serving as special education administrators as of September
second, two thousand nine shall complete such training by such date. The
enhanced course work or training shall be obtained from  an  institution
or  provider  which  has been approved by the department to provide such
course work or training in the needs of autistic children, provided that
enhanced training for certified  school  administrators  or  supervisors
that  meets  standards prescribed by the commissioner may be included in

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11940-01-9

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the professional development provided by the school district or board of
cooperative educational services to such administrators or supervisors.
  b.  The  commissioner  shall  assure  that  teacher preparation insti-
tutions, in the [two thousand eight--two  thousand  nine]  TWO  THOUSAND
TEN--TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN academic year, include instruction in the needs
of  autistic  children  in  all  programs  leading to certification as a
[special education] teacher.
  S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

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