Requires at least one full-time psychologist to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school throughout the state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10154--A
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a psychol-
ogist 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. Full-time school psychologists required in elementary, inter-
4 mediate, middle, junior high and senior high schools. The board of
5 education or trustees of every school district in the state shall on and
6 after July first, two thousand eighteen employ at least one certified or
7 licensed school psychologist in each of the schools under their juris-
8 diction exclusive of any school psychologists funded or mandated through
9 any special education funding, aid, regulation or statute.
10 § 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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