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Assembly Bill A6373A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of education to study and report on the provision of services to public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors

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2017-A6373 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2105
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education, Commissioner of
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8077, S5369
2015-2016: A6844, S2866
2019-2020: A6433, S311
2021-2022: S3682
2023-2024: S2358
2025-2026: S3785

2017-A6373 - Summary

Directs the commissioner of education to study and report on the provision of services to public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.

2017-A6373 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6373
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
   MOYA, RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to direct the commissioner of education to examine, evaluate  and
   make  recommendations  on  the  provision of services by public school
   guidance counselors to students in grades 8 through 12
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The commissioner of education is hereby directed to exam-
 ine, evaluate and make recommendations on the provision of  services  to
 public  school  students  in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.
 Such commissioner shall study, with particular care:
   (a) the ratio of guidance counselors to students in grades  8  through
 12, by public school, school district and statewide;
   (b)  the  amount  of  time  each  guidance  counselor spends with each
 student in grades 8 through 12 during a school year, by  public  school,
 school district and statewide;
   (c)  the number of students in grades 8 through 12 each guidance coun-
 selor interviews during a  school  quarter,  by  public  school,  school
 district and statewide;
   (d)  the  number  of  students in each grade that are interviewed by a
 guidance counselor during a school quarter,  by  public  school,  school
 district and statewide;
   (e)  the  services guidance counselors provide to students in grades 8
 through 12, by public school and school district;
   (f) the number of hours guidance counselors are available to  students
 in  grades  8  through  12  each  school  day,  by public school, school
 district and statewide;
   (g) the types and frequency of guidance counselor services that should
 be provided to public school students in grades 8 through 12.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04804-01-7

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2017-A6373A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2105
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education, Commissioner of
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8077, S5369
2015-2016: A6844, S2866
2019-2020: A6433, S311
2021-2022: S3682
2023-2024: S2358
2025-2026: S3785

2017-A6373A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of education to study and report on the provision of services to public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.

2017-A6373A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6373--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
   RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred  to  the
   Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
   accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee
 
 AN  ACT to direct the commissioner of education to examine, evaluate and
   make recommendations on the provision of  services  by  public  school
   guidance counselors to students in grades 8 through 12
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The commissioner of education is hereby directed  to  exam-
 ine,  evaluate  and make recommendations on the provision of services to
 public school students in grades 8 through 12  by  guidance  counselors.
 Such commissioner shall study, with particular care:
   (a)  the  ratio of guidance counselors to students in grades 8 through
 12, by public school, school district and statewide;
   (b) the amount of  time  each  guidance  counselor  spends  with  each
 student  in  grades 8 through 12 during a school year, by public school,
 school district and statewide;
   (c) the number of students in grades 8 through 12 each guidance  coun-
 selor  interviews  during  a  school  quarter,  by public school, school
 district and statewide;
   (d) the number of students in each grade that  are  interviewed  by  a
 guidance  counselor  during  a  school quarter, by public school, school
 district and statewide;
   (e) the services guidance counselors provide to students in  grades  8
 through 12, by public school and school district;
   (f)  the number of hours guidance counselors are available to students
 in grades 8 through  12  each  school  day,  by  public  school,  school
 district and statewide;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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