Senate Bill S462

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S462

SPONSOR: SEPULVEDA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of information that
we have regarding the demographic and linguistic break-downs of social
workers.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section I. Mandates the department of education to prepare a comprehen-
sive study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual
status of all licensed social workers.

Section 2. Indicates that the report should be completed within a year
              

and given to the Governor, temporary president of the Senate, and Speak-
er of the Assembly.

Section 3. Sets the effective date. This act shall take effect imme-
diately.

 
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION:

N/A

 
JUSTIFICATION:

A study and report on the self-identified study and report on self-iden-
tified ethnicity and multilingual status would expand the states know-
ledge of the different communities that our social workers are being
pulled from. There is a connection between the services offered by the
state and cultural and linguistic accessibility to those services.

A study would allow us to know if we are correctly and thoroughly serv-
ing our community with social services. A study would allow us to iden-
tify demographic imbalances that may hinder the communication between
our social workers and New Yorkers in need of the service.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.626 of 2022: Referred to Higher Education;

S.626 of 2021: Referred to Higher Education;

S.1771 of 2020: Referred to Higher Education;

S.1771 of 2019: Referred to Higher Education;

S.8482 of 2018: Referred to Higher Education;

A.9924 of 2016: Referred to Higher Education

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.