Authorizes the commissioner of education, in consultation with the commissioner of the office of children and family services, to develop a teenage parenting skills development demonstration program to be conducted in three school districts, one of which shall be the city of New York; requires the commissioner of education to report to the legislature regarding such program; appropriates $100,000 therefor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1438
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. DILAN, ADAMS, DIAZ, DUANE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HUNT-
LEY, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, ONORATO, PARKER, SAMPSON, SAVINO, THOMPSON
-- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Finance
AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of education to develop a teenage
parenting skills development demonstration program and making an
appropriation therefor
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, in consultation with the
2 commissioner of the office of children and family services, shall devel-
3 op a teenage parenting skills development demonstration program. Such
4 program shall be conducted in three school districts in the state, with
5 one being in the city of New York.
6 § 2. The goals of this demonstration program will be to teach teen
7 parents their responsibilities and make them aware of the resources
8 which are available to them. In addition, the program will provide an
9 education in the basic skills of parenting, the particular aspects of
10 which education are to be determined by the department of education in
11 conjunction with the office of children and family services. The
12 program will also bring together different teenage parents for the
13 purpose of learning from each other and building a support network.
14 § 3. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much
15 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the commissioner
16 of education from any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund
17 to the credit of the state purposes account, not otherwise appropriated,
18 for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act.
19 § 4. The commissioner of education shall report to the legislature
20 within three years after this act shall have become a law on the demon-
21 stration program authorized by section one of this act along with recom-
22 mendations for establishing such a program on a statewide level.
23 § 5. 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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