Senate Bill S1771

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher 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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2019-S1771 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10925
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9924
2017-2018: S8482, A4102
2021-2022: S626, A2224
2023-2024: S462

2019-S1771 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers and provide such report to the governor and legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act.

2019-S1771 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1771 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1771
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT requiring the department of education to study and report on the
   self-identified ethnicity and  multilingual  status  of  all  licensed
   social workers

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The department of education shall prepare  a  comprehensive
 study  and  report  on  the  self-identified  ethnicity and multilingual
 status of all licensed social workers.  Such  data  shall  be  collected
 during the licensure and re-registration process of such individuals and
 then compiled in an easily readable format.
   §  2.  The  commissioner of education shall provide such report to the
 governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the  assembly
 no  later  than  one  year  after  the effective date of this act.  Such
 report shall be updated and delivered  annually  for  a  total  of  five
 years.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07187-01-9



              

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