Requires at least one full-time licensed social worker to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle and junior high school and senior high school throughout the state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3213
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, BARRON, LAVINE, SKOUFIS, CROUCH -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a licensed
social worker in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high
and senior high school
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 803-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 803-b. Social workers licensed under article one hundred fifty-four
4 of this chapter required in elementary, intermediate, middle, junior
5 high and senior high schools. The board of education or trustees of
6 every school district in the state shall on and after July first, two
7 thousand seventeen employ at least one licensed social worker in each of
8 the schools under their jurisdiction exclusive of any social workers
9 funded or mandated through any special education funding, aid, regu-
10 lation or statute. Such licensed social worker shall perform such
11 duties within their lawful scope of practice.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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