NY State Senate Bill 2017-S7806A

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 06, 2018	print number 7806a
Mar 06, 2018	amend and recommit to education
Feb 27, 2018	referred to education

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2017-S7806 - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Add §2801-d, amd §3641, Ed L; amd §211, R & SS L

2017-S7806 - Summary

Authorizes school districts to employ school mental health services program coordinators and provides school aid grants for such purpose.

2017-S7806 - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7806

SPONSOR: CROCI
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the education law and the retirement
and social security law, in relation to creating a school mental health
services program coordinator

 
PURPOSE:

This bill would establish a Mental Health Services Coordinator Program
under the education law and establish a mental health services program
coordinator education aid program to reimburse school districts outside
the city of New York, $50,000 for the hiring of such a mental health
services professional.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

More specifically, this bill would add a new section 2801-c to the
education law to:

-Define the term Mental Health Services Program Coordinator to include a

mental health services professional, with qualifications determined by
regulation by the commissioner of education.

-Authorize school districts to hire mental health services program coor-
dinators, or contract for their services with mental health services
providers.

-Define the role and responsibility of a mental health services program
coordinator as working with students, faculty and other mental health
and health care professionals to identify, report and address mental
health issues of students, faculty and administration, at any public or
non-public school, that could pose a risk to public safety.

-Authorize the state department of education by regulation, to determine
the qualifications for a mental health services program coordinator, and
establish the mandatory reports, the persons or entities with whom such
reports shall be filed, and the treatment services that may be offered
or directed by a mental health services program coordinator.

This bill would further amend sections 3602 and 3602-c of the education
law, to establish a mental health services program coordinator aid
program, in order to reimburse school districts outside the city of New
York, $50,000 for the hiring of such a mental health services profes-
sional.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Recent school attacks across the nation have demonstrated an important
need to increase security at schools.

In many of these tragedies, it has been demonstrated that the failure to
properly identify and address mental illness of the attacker has led, at
least in part, to the failure to prevent the attack.  Therefore, one of
the best possible preventive and responsive measures is the deployment
of mental health services to identify, report and address individuals
who they, in their clinical and professional judgment could pose a
threat to public safety and security.

This bill would provide a specific definition of Mental Health Services
Program Coordinator, requiring such persons to be experienced mental
health services professional, with the qualifications determined by
regulations established by the state department of education. It further
provides, for the first time, an important state aid component, which
will allow all schools across the state, to have the necessary funds to
retain the services of such invaluable mental health services
professions who could seriously enhance public protection.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

This bill will establish a new state education aid program, the cost of
which will depend upon the number of schools hire mental health services
program coordinators. This program would provide $50,000 in state aid
for every district that chooses to make such a hire.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act would take effect immediately.

2017-S7806 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7806
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 27, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law and the retirement and social security
   law, in relation to creating a school mental health  services  program
   coordinator
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2801-d
 to read as follows:
   § 2801-D. NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COORDI-
 NATOR. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "SCHOOL  MENTAL  HEALTH
 SERVICES  PROGRAM  COORDINATOR"  SHALL  MEAN  A  MENTAL  HEALTH SERVICES
 PROFESSIONAL,  WITH  QUALIFICATIONS  DETERMINED  BY  REGULATION  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER,  WHOSE  ROLE  AND  RESPONSIBILITY  SHALL  BE  TO WORK WITH
 STUDENTS, FACULTY AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE  PROFESSIONALS
 TO IDENTIFY, REPORT AND ADDRESS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OF STUDENTS, FACUL-
 TY AND ADMINISTRATION AT ANY PUBLIC OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL THAT COULD POSE
 A RISK TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
   2. ANY PUBLIC OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL MAY EMPLOY A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
 PROFESSIONAL,  IN  EITHER THE CLASSIFIED OR UNCLASSIFIED SERVICE, DETER-
 MINED IN REGULATION BY THE COMMISSIONER TO BE  QUALIFIED,  AS  A  MENTAL
 HEALTH  SERVICES  PROGRAM  COORDINATOR.    ANY SUCH PUBLIC OR NON-PUBLIC
 SCHOOL MAY ALSO CONTRACT WITH THE STATE OF NEW  YORK,  A  COUNTY,  CITY,
 TOWN  OR VILLAGE, OR WITH A PRIVATE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDER, FOR
 THE PROVISION OF A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES  PROFESSIONAL,  DETERMINED  IN
 REGULATION  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  TO BE QUALIFIED, TO SERVE AS A MENTAL
 HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATOR.
   3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, BY REGULATION, DETERMINE THE QUALIFICATIONS
 FOR A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES  PROGRAM  COORDINATOR.  A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT
 SHALL  BE  AUTHORIZED  TO  EMPLOY  OR CONTRACT FOR AS MANY MENTAL HEALTH
 SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATORS, AS SUCH  DISTRICT  DEEMS  NECESSARY.  THE
 COMMISSIONER  SHALL  BY REGULATION, ESTABLISH THE MANDATORY REPORTS, THE
 PERSONS OR ENTITIES WITH WHOM SUCH  REPORTS  SHALL  BE  FILED,  AND  THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD14904-02-8

 S. 7806                             2
 
 TREATMENT  SERVICES  THAT  MAY BE OFFERED OR DIRECTED BY A MENTAL HEALTH
 SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATOR.
   §  2.  Section  3641  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 18 to read as follows:
   18. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATOR GRANTS.  A. IN THE  TWO
 THOUSAND  EIGHTEEN--TWO  THOUSAND  NINETEEN  SCHOOL YEAR AND THEREAFTER,
 WITHIN THE AMOUNT APPROPRIATED FOR SERVICES AND EXPENSES RELATED TO  THE
 EXPENSE  OF  SCHOOL  MENTAL  HEALTH  SERVICES  PROGRAM COORDINATORS, THE
 COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE GRANTS PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION  TO:  (1)
 PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS OTHER THAN A CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN A CITY WITH
 A  POPULATION  OF  ONE MILLION OR MORE INHABITANTS, (2) CHARTER SCHOOLS,
 AND (3) NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
   B. GRANTS UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE  EQUAL  TO  THE  GREATER  OF
 FIFTY  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  OR THE PRODUCT OF (1) TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS,
 AND (2) THE GREATER OF (A) THE  TOTAL  NUMBER  OF  INSTRUCTIONAL  SCHOOL
 BUILDINGS  OWNED,  LEASED  OR  IN USE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES BY SUCH
 PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, CHARTER SCHOOL, OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL, OR (B) THE
 QUOTIENT OF THE ENROLLMENT OF SUCH PUBLIC SCHOOL  DISTRICT  PURSUANT  TO
 PARAGRAPH N OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS
 ARTICLE DIVIDED BY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, AND (3) THE AID RATIO PURSUANT
 TO  SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS ARTICLE,
 PROVIDED THAT FOR A CHARTER SCHOOL OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL, THE  AID  RATIO
 SHALL  BE THE AID RATIO FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE CHARTER
 SCHOOL OR THE NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL IS LOCATED.
   C. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO ADOPT REGULATIONS TO IMPLE-
 MENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   D. IN THE EVENT THE APPROPRIATION FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION  IN
 ANY  YEAR  IS  INSUFFICIENT  TO PAY ALL CLAIMS RECEIVED PURSUANT TO THIS
 SUBDIVISION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PAY SUCH CLAIMS ON A PRORATED  BASIS
 AMONG  ALL  DISTRICTS  FILING  SUCH  CLAIMS  UNTIL  THE APPROPRIATION IS
 EXHAUSTED.
   § 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 211 of  the  retirement
 and  social  security law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 3-a to
 read as follows:
   (3-A) THAT HIS OR HER EMPLOYMENT TITLE AND RESPECTIVE DUTIES  WILL  BE
 RESTRICTED TO SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATOR, AS SUCH
 TERM  IS  DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE-D OF THE EDUCATION
 LAW;
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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2017-S7806A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Add §2801-d, amd §3641, Ed L; amd §211, R & SS L

2017-S7806A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes school districts to employ school mental health services program coordinators and provides school aid grants for such purpose.

2017-S7806A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7806A         REVISED MEMO 04/16/2018

SPONSOR: CROCI
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the education law and the retirement
and social security law, in relation to creating a school mental health
services program coordinator

 
PURPOSE:

This bill would establish a Mental Health Services Coordinator Program
under the education law and establish a mental health services program
coordinator education aid program to reimburse school districts up to
$50,000 for the hiring of such a mental health services professional.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

More specifically, this bill would add a new section 2801-c to the
education law to:

-Define the term Mental Health Services Program Coordinator to include a
mental health services professional, with qualifications determined by

regulation by the commissioner of education.

-Authorize school districts to hire mental health services program coor-
dinators, or contract for their services with mental health services
providers.

-Define the role and responsibility of a mental health services program
coordinator as working with students, faculty and other mental health
and health care professionals to identify, report and address mental
health issues of students, faculty and administration, at any public or
non-public school, that could pose a risk to public safety.

-Authorize the state department of education by regulation, to determine
the qualifications for a mental health services program coordinator, and
establish the mandatory reports, the persons or entities with whom such
reports shall be filed, and the treatment services that may be offered
or directed by a mental health services program coordinator.

This bill would further amend sections 3602 and 3602-c of the education
law, to establish a mental health services program coordinator aid
program, in order to reimburse school districts up to $50,000 for the
hiring of such a mental health services professional.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Recent school attacks across the nation have demonstrated an important
need to increase security at schools.

In many of these tragedies, it has been demonstrated that the failure to
properly identify and address mental illness of the attacker has led, at
least in part, to the failure to prevent the attack.  Therefore, one of
the best possible preventive and responsive measures is the deployment
of mental health services to identify, report and address individuals
who they, in their clinical and professional judgment could pose a
threat to public safety and security.

This bill would provide a specific definition of Mental Health Services
Program Coordinator, requiring such persons to be experienced mental
health services professional, with the qualifications determined by
regulations established by the state department of education. It further
provides, for the first time, an important state aid component, which
will allow all schools across the state, to have the necessary funds to
retain the services of such invaluable mental health services
professions who could seriously enhance public protection.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

This bill will establish a new state education aid program, the cost of
which will depend upon the number of schools hire mental health services
program coordinators. This program would provide $50,000 in state aid
for every district that chooses to make such a hire.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act would take effect immediately.

2017-S7806A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7806--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 27, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  CROCI,  AKSHAR,  AMEDORE, BONACIC, FUNKE, GOLDEN,
   HELMING, JACOBS, LARKIN, MARCELLINO, MARCHIONE, PHILLIPS, RANZENHOFER,
   ROBACH, SEWARD, VALESKY -- 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 committee

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the retirement and social security
   law, in relation to creating a school mental health  services  program
   coordinator
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2801-d
 to read as follows:
   § 2801-D. NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COORDI-
 NATOR. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "SCHOOL  MENTAL  HEALTH
 SERVICES  PROGRAM  COORDINATOR"  SHALL  MEAN  A  MENTAL  HEALTH SERVICES
 PROFESSIONAL,  WITH  QUALIFICATIONS  DETERMINED  BY  REGULATION  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER,  WHOSE  ROLE  AND  RESPONSIBILITY  SHALL  BE  TO WORK WITH
 STUDENTS, FACULTY AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE  PROFESSIONALS
 TO IDENTIFY, REPORT AND ADDRESS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OF STUDENTS, FACUL-
 TY AND ADMINISTRATION AT ANY PUBLIC OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL THAT COULD POSE
 A RISK TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
   2. ANY PUBLIC OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL MAY EMPLOY A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
 PROFESSIONAL,  IN  EITHER THE CLASSIFIED OR UNCLASSIFIED SERVICE, DETER-
 MINED IN REGULATION BY THE COMMISSIONER TO BE  QUALIFIED,  AS  A  MENTAL
 HEALTH  SERVICES  PROGRAM  COORDINATOR.    ANY SUCH PUBLIC OR NON-PUBLIC
 SCHOOL MAY ALSO CONTRACT WITH THE STATE OF NEW  YORK,  A  COUNTY,  CITY,
 TOWN  OR VILLAGE, OR WITH A PRIVATE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDER, FOR
 THE PROVISION OF A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES  PROFESSIONAL,  DETERMINED  IN
 REGULATION  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  TO BE QUALIFIED, TO SERVE AS A MENTAL
 HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATOR.
   3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, BY REGULATION, DETERMINE THE QUALIFICATIONS
 FOR A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES  PROGRAM  COORDINATOR.  A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT
 SHALL  BE  AUTHORIZED  TO  EMPLOY  OR CONTRACT FOR AS MANY MENTAL HEALTH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14904-03-8

 S. 7806--A                          2
 
 SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATORS, AS SUCH  DISTRICT  DEEMS  NECESSARY.  THE
 COMMISSIONER  SHALL  BY REGULATION, ESTABLISH THE MANDATORY REPORTS, THE
 PERSONS OR ENTITIES WITH WHOM SUCH  REPORTS  SHALL  BE  FILED,  AND  THE
 TREATMENT  SERVICES  THAT  MAY BE OFFERED OR DIRECTED BY A MENTAL HEALTH
 SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATOR.
   § 2. Section 3641 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 18 to read as follows:
   18.  MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATOR GRANTS.  A. IN THE TWO
 THOUSAND EIGHTEEN--TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN  SCHOOL  YEAR  AND  THEREAFTER,
 WITHIN  THE AMOUNT APPROPRIATED FOR SERVICES AND EXPENSES RELATED TO THE
 EXPENSE OF SCHOOL  MENTAL  HEALTH  SERVICES  PROGRAM  COORDINATORS,  THE
 COMMISSIONER  SHALL  PROVIDE GRANTS PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION TO: (1)
 PUBLIC  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS,  (2)  CHARTER  SCHOOLS,  AND  (3)  NON-PUBLIC
 SCHOOLS.
   B.  GRANTS  UNDER  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE GREATER OF
 FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS OR THE PRODUCT OF (1)  TWENTY  THOUSAND  DOLLARS,
 AND  (2)  THE  GREATER  OF  (A) THE TOTAL NUMBER OF INSTRUCTIONAL SCHOOL
 BUILDINGS OWNED, LEASED OR IN USE FOR  INSTRUCTIONAL  PURPOSES  BY  SUCH
 PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, CHARTER SCHOOL, OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL, OR (B) THE
 QUOTIENT  OF  THE  ENROLLMENT OF SUCH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT PURSUANT TO
 PARAGRAPH N OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS
 ARTICLE DIVIDED BY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, AND (3) THE AID RATIO PURSUANT
 TO SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS  ARTICLE,
 PROVIDED  THAT  FOR A CHARTER SCHOOL OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL, THE AID RATIO
 SHALL BE THE AID RATIO FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE  CHARTER
 SCHOOL OR THE NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL IS LOCATED.
   C. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO ADOPT REGULATIONS TO IMPLE-
 MENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   D.  IN THE EVENT THE APPROPRIATION FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION IN
 ANY YEAR IS INSUFFICIENT TO PAY ALL CLAIMS  RECEIVED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
 SUBDIVISION,  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PAY SUCH CLAIMS ON A PRORATED BASIS
 AMONG ALL DISTRICTS  FILING  SUCH  CLAIMS  UNTIL  THE  APPROPRIATION  IS
 EXHAUSTED.
   §  3.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 211 of the retirement
 and social security law is amended by adding a new subparagraph  3-a  to
 read as follows:
   (3-A)  THAT  HIS OR HER EMPLOYMENT TITLE AND RESPECTIVE DUTIES WILL BE
 RESTRICTED TO SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM COORDINATOR, AS SUCH
 TERM IS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE-D OF  THE  EDUCATION
 LAW;
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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