Bill Text: NY S03416 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-26 - PRINT NUMBER 3416A [S03416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03416-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3416
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 18, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       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  TWELVE  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]  ELEVEN  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] ELEVEN 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
   21  autistic  children, provided that enhanced training for certified school
   22  administrators or supervisors that meets  standards  prescribed  by  the
   23  commissioner may be included in the professional development provided by
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06852-02-1
       S. 3416                             2
    1  the school district or board of cooperative educational services to such
    2  administrators or supervisors.
    3    b.  The  commissioner  shall  assure  that  teacher preparation insti-
    4  tutions, in the [two thousand eight--two  thousand  nine]  TWO  THOUSAND
    5  TWELVE--TWO  THOUSAND THIRTEEN academic year, include instruction in the
    6  needs of autistic children in all programs leading to certification as a
    7  [special education] teacher.
    8    S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    9  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.