Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations to include school mental health practitioners in a certificate valid for pupil personnel services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7611--A
IN SENATE
May 11, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- reported
favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Higher
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 the commis-
sioner to issue regulations to include school mental health practi-
tioners in a certificate valid for pupil personnel services
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 55 to read as follows:
3 55. The commissioner shall issue regulations to include a school
4 mental health counselor, school marriage and family therapist, school
5 psychoanalyst and a school creative arts therapist in a certificate
6 valid for pupil personnel services.
7 In addition to any other requirement for certificate established in
8 regulations, a candidate for a certificate established by this subdivi-
9 sion shall be registered and hold a valid license pursuant to article
10 one hundred sixty-three of this chapter.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
13 ly the department of education is authorized to promulgate any and all
14 rules and regulations and to take any other measures necessary to imple-
15 ment this act on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15034-03-6
