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This bill requires every public school in New York to employ at least one full-time certified or licensed school psychologist.
Why it matters
Expands access to mental health support. by ensuring every public school—regardless of its size or location—has at least one full-time, qualified school psychologist available to students, not just those in schools serving special education populations.
Strengthens early intervention and prevention. for student behavioral, emotional, and psychological issues, potentially helping to address problems before they escalate and improving educational outcomes and school safety.
Creates a new, state-wide standard. for mental health staffing in schools, which could reduce disparities between districts and signal a greater statewide commitment to student well-being and mental health services.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1433
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a psychologist in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 803-b to read as follows:
§ 803-b. Full-time school psychologists required in elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high schools. The board of education or trustees of every school district in the state shall on and after July first, two thousand nineteen employ at least one certified or licensed school psychologist in each of the schools under their jurisdiction exclusive of any school psychologists funded or mandated through any special education funding, aid, regulation or statute.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05276-01-9
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