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Assembly Bill A9299

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues

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2015-A9299 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6234
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3006-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A4004, S3550
2019-2020: A5313, S5704
2021-2022: S2774
2023-2024: S1924
2025-2026: S3969

2015-A9299 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues.

2015-A9299 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9299

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 16, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. CRESPO, RICHARDSON, SEPULVEDA -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  mandatory  continuing
  education for teachers relating to mental health issues

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

  Section 1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 2  of  section  3006-a  of  the
education  law, as added by section 2 of subpart C of part EE of chapter
56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
  a. During each five-year registration period  beginning  on  or  after
July  first,  two  thousand sixteen, an applicant for registration shall
successfully complete a minimum  of  one  hundred  hours  of  continuing
teacher  and  leader  education,  as defined by the commissioner.   SUCH
CONTINUING TEACHER AND LEADER EDUCATION SHALL  INCLUDE  AT  LEAST  TWICE
DURING THE FIVE-YEAR REGISTRATION PERIOD, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, CONTIN-
UING  EDUCATION  COURSES,  PROGRAMS,  AND  ACTIVITIES  RELATED TO MENTAL
HEALTH. SUCH TRAINING SHALL INCLUDE BEST PRACTICES FOR THE SAFE DE-ESCA-
LATION OF CRISIS SITUATIONS, AND IDENTIFYING SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS, INCLUD-
ING THE EARLY STAGES, OF MENTAL ILLNESSES AND SITUATIONS THAT MAY NECES-
SITATE  TIMELY  NOTIFICATION  TO  APPROPRIATE  SCHOOL   OFFICIALS.   The
department  shall  issue  rigorous  standards for courses, programs, and
activities[,] that shall qualify as continuing teacher and leader educa-
tion pursuant to this section. For purposes  of  this  section,  a  peer
review  teacher,  or a principal acting as an independent trained evalu-
ator, conducting a classroom observation as part of the  teacher  evalu-
ation system pursuant to section three thousand twelve-d of this article
may  credit  such  time towards his or her continuing teacher and leader
effectiveness requirements.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13211-06-6

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