S 87: Requires the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers and provide such report to the governor and legislature no later than one year after the effective date of this act.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 87 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT requiring the department of education to study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual status of all licensed social workers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The department of education shall prepare a comprehensive 2 study and report on the self-identified ethnicity and multilingual 3 status of all licensed social workers. Such data shall be collected 4 during the licensure and re-registration process of such individuals and 5 then compiled in an easily readable format. 6 § 2. The commissioner of education shall provide such report to the 7 governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the 8 assembly no later than one year after the effective date of this act. 9 Such report shall be updated and delivered annually for a total of five 10 years. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00652-01-5