Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learning and report the findings of such study and any recommendations to the governor and legislature.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10063--B
IN ASSEMBLY
March 14, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, HYNDMAN, JEAN-PIERRE, McDONALD, ORTIZ,
WALKER, MOSLEY, SEAWRIGHT, BARRON, RIVERA, WILLIAMS, TAYLOR, NIOU,
D'URSO, ARROYO, LAVINE, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO,
HOOPER, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to
said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing and
directing the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the
effects of trauma on child development and learning
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 59 to read as follows:
3 59. a. The commissioner is authorized and directed to conduct a study
4 on the effects of trauma on child development and learning. Such study
5 shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
6 (i) the types of trauma experienced by students;
7 (ii) the impacts of trauma on child development and learning;
8 (iii) screening and assessments of trauma available in schools;
9 (iv) programs, interventions, and services related to trauma that are
10 available in schools; and
11 (v) best practices for school personnel in the area of trauma as it
12 relates to child development and learning.
13 b. Within one year of the effective date of this subdivision, the
14 commissioner shall deliver a report of the findings of such study and
15 recommendations based on such findings to the governor, the temporary
16 president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority lead-
17 er of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly. Such report
18 shall also include such legislative proposals as the commissioner deems
19 necessary to implement his or her recommendations.
20 § 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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