Senate Bill S8217

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to media literacy education

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee 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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2023-S8217 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8891
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3006-a & 711, add §§286 & 756, Ed L

2023-S8217 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "media literacy act"; requires teachers and library media specialists to complete professional development related to media literacy education; requires a school library media specialist in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school; directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory committee to study the teaching of media literacy

2023-S8217 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8217 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8217
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  enacting  the  "media
   literacy act of 2024"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1.  Short title. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
 the "media literacy act of 2024".
   § 2. 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 and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
   2. 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. 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.
   b. DURING EACH FIVE-YEAR REGISTRATION PERIOD BEGINNING ON OR  AFTER  A
 DATE  WHICH  SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER, ANY TEACHER WHO IS
 AN APPLICANT FOR REGISTRATION SHALL SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE A  MINIMUM  OF
 FIVE  HOURS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RELATED TO MEDIA LITERACY EDUCA-
 TION AND ANY LIBRARY  MEDIA  SPECIALIST  SHALL  COMPLETE  A  MINIMUM  OF
 FIFTEEN  HOURS  OF  PROFESSIONAL  DEVELOPMENT  RELATED TO MEDIA LITERACY
 EDUCATION, AS DEFINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.   SUCH PROFESSIONAL  DEVELOP-
 MENT RELATED TO MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION SHALL BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ONE
 HUNDRED  HOURS  OF  CONTINUING  TEACHER AND LEADER EDUCATION REQUIRED BY
 PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE THAT:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13787-02-4
              

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