A 3610: Requires two qualified psychiatrists to be employed by each school district to perform and coordinate the provision of mental health services in the public schools.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3610 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring two quali- fied psychiatrists to be employed by each school district The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 902 of the education law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows: 3 c. The board of education, the trustee or board of trustees of each 4 school district, shall employ, at a compensation to be agreed upon by 5 the parties, two qualified psychiatrists as defined in section 9.01 of 6 the mental hygiene law. Such qualified psychiatrists shall perform and 7 coordinate the provision of mental health services in the public 8 schools, and provide mental health appraisals of students attending the 9 public schools in the district. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06278-01-5