Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5849
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 1, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, COOK, LAVINE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. NIOU, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Educa-
tion
AN ACT authorizing and directing the commissioner of education to
conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how
being a caregiver impacts their education
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 authorized and
2 directed to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers
3 and how being a caregiver impacts the child's education. "Caregiver
4 children" shall be defined as students with sick, disabled, or elderly
5 relatives that such students care for outside of school. The commission-
6 er of education shall give recommendations based on the study's find-
7 ings. Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
8 (a) the number of caregiver children within the state;
9 (b) the amount of time caregiver children spend caring for relatives;
10 (c) how being a caregiver child impacts the child's education;
11 (d) the circumstances that lead to a child becoming a caregiver child;
12 and
13 (e) any recommendations on how to reduce the negative educational
14 impacts of being a caregiver child.
15 § 2. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the commis-
16 sioner of education shall submit a report of his or her findings,
17 conclusions and recommendations to the governor, the temporary president
18 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of the senate
19 and assembly committees on education. Such report shall also include
20 such legislative proposals as such commissioner deems necessary to
21 implement his or her recommendations.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03950-01-1
