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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3785
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of education is hereby directed to exam-
2 ine, evaluate and make recommendations on the provision of services to
3 public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.
4 Such commissioner shall study, with particular care:
5 (a) the ratio of guidance counselors to students in grades 8 through
6 12, by public school, school district and statewide;
7 (b) the amount of time each guidance counselor spends with each
8 student in grades 8 through 12 during a school year, by public school,
9 school district and statewide;
10 (c) the number of students in grades 8 through 12 each guidance coun-
11 selor interviews during a school quarter, by public school, school
12 district and statewide;
13 (d) the number of students in each grade that are interviewed by a
14 guidance counselor during a school quarter, by public school, school
15 district and statewide;
16 (e) the services guidance counselors provide to students in grades 8
17 through 12, by public school and school district;
18 (f) the number of hours guidance counselors are available to students
19 in grades 8 through 12 each school day, by public school, school
20 district and statewide;
21 (g) the types and frequency of guidance counselor services that should
22 be provided to public school students in grades 8 through 12.
23 § 2. On or before January 1, 2027, the commissioner of education shall
24 submit a report of such commissioner's findings, conclusions and recom-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 mendations to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
2 speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of the senate and assembly
3 committees on education. Such report shall also include such legislative
4 proposals as the commissioner deems necessary to implement such commis-
5 sioner's recommendations.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
