Bill Text: NY S03189 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires all teachers to complete training in area of autism and directs the commissioner of education to assure that such training is included in all teacher certification programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-07 - PRINT NUMBER 3189A [S03189 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S03189-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3189--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 31, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all teachers
to complete training in the area of autism and directing the commis-
sioner of education to assure that such training is included in all
teacher certification programs
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3004 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 484 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. a. The commissioner shall prescribe regulations requiring that all
5 persons applying on or after September second, two thousand [nine]
6 FIFTEEN for a teaching certificate or license as a [special education]
7 teacher for the purposes pursuant to article eighty-nine of this chapter
8 shall, in addition to all the other certification or licensing require-
9 ments, have completed enhanced course work or training in area of chil-
10 dren with autism. In addition, such regulations shall require that
11 enhanced training in the needs of autistic children be provided to each
12 certified school administrator or supervisor assigned on or after
13 September second, two thousand [nine] FOURTEEN to serve as a special
14 education administrator. Such training shall be provided prior to, or
15 as soon as practicable following, assignment as a special education
16 administrator. Individuals serving as special education administrators
17 as of September second, two thousand [nine] FOURTEEN shall complete such
18 training by such date. The enhanced course work or training shall be
19 obtained from an institution or provider which has been approved by the
20 department to provide such course work or training in the needs of
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 autistic children, provided that enhanced training for certified school
2 administrators or supervisors that meets standards prescribed by the
3 commissioner may be included in the professional development provided by
4 the school district or board of cooperative educational services to such
5 administrators or supervisors.
6 b. The commissioner shall assure that teacher preparation insti-
7 tutions, in the [two thousand eight--two thousand nine] TWO THOUSAND
8 FIFTEEN--TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN academic year, include instruction in the
9 needs of autistic children in all programs leading to certification as a
10 [special education] teacher.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
12 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
