Bill Text: NY A01913 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of children and family services to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learning.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-29 - SIGNED CHAP.196 [A01913 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01913-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1913
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN  ACT  to amend a chapter of the laws of 2018, relating to authorizing
          and directing the commissioner of education to conduct a study on  the
          effects  of  trauma  on  child development and learning as proposed in
          legislative bills numbers  S.8000-B  and  A.10063-B,  in  relation  to
          authorizing  and  directing  the  commissioner  of children and family
          services to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child develop-
          ment and learning; and to repeal certain provisions of  the  education
          law relating thereto
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 59 of section 305  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added  by  a  chapter  of  the  laws of 2018, amending the education law
     3  relating to authorizing and directing the commissioner of  education  to
     4  conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learn-
     5  ing, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.8000-B and A.10063-B, is
     6  REPEALED.
     7    §  2. A chapter of the laws of 2018, amending the education law relat-
     8  ing to authorizing  and  directing  the  commissioner  of  education  to
     9  conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learn-
    10  ing, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.8000-B and A.10063-B, is
    11  amended by adding a new section 1-a to read as follows:
    12    §  1-a. The commissioner of children and family services, in consulta-
    13  tion with the commissioner of education and the commissioner of  health,
    14  is  authorized  and directed to conduct a study on the effects of trauma
    15  on child development and learning. Such study shall include, but not  be
    16  limited to, the following:
    17    (i) the types of trauma experienced by students;
    18    (ii) the impacts of trauma on child development and learning;
    19    (iii) screening and assessments of trauma available in schools;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iv)  programs, interventions, and services related to trauma that are
     2  available in schools; and
     3    (v)  best  practices  for school personnel in the area of trauma as it
     4  relates to child development and learning.
     5    b. On or before December 31, 2020, the commissioner  of  children  and
     6  family services shall deliver a report of the findings of such study and
     7  recommendations  based  on  such findings to the governor, the temporary
     8  president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority lead-
     9  er of the senate and the minority leader of the  assembly.  Such  report
    10  shall  also  include  such  legislative proposals as the commissioner of
    11  children and family services deems necessary to  implement  his  or  her
    12  recommendations.
    13    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    14  manner as a chapter of the laws of  2018,  amending  the  education  law
    15  relating  to  authorizing and directing the commissioner of education to
    16  conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learn-
    17  ing, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.8000-B  and  A.10063-B,
    18  takes effect.