S6273 • 2025

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education

Children Education

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Last action: 2026-05-28
Official status: Passed Assembly
Effective date: Not listed

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Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.

What This Bill Does

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.

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Bill History

2026-05-28 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED FOR A3595A
2026-05-28 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.113
2026-05-28 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-05-28 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-02-25 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-02-25 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-02-25 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-02-24 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-02-11 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-02-10 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.318
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2025-06-16 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED FOR A3595A
2025-06-16 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.779
2025-06-12 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-06-12 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-12 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2025-06-04 Senate
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 6273A
2025-04-10 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-04-09 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-04-08 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.668
2025-03-07 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6273

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      March 7, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. BAILEY, BROUK, COONEY, JACKSON, MAY, PERSAUD, WEBB
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Education

        AN ACT authorizing  and  directing  the  commissioner  of  education  to
          conduct  a  study on the number of children who are caregivers and how
          being a caregiver impacts their education

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  The  commissioner  of  education is hereby authorized and
     2  directed to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers
     3  and how being a caregiver  impacts  the  child's  education.  "Caregiver
     4  children"  shall  be defined as students with sick, disabled, or elderly
     5  relatives that such students care for outside of school. The commission-
     6  er of education shall give recommendations based on  the  study's  find-
     7  ings. Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
     8    (a) the number of caregiver children within the state;
     9    (b) the amount of time caregiver children spend caring for relatives;
    10    (c) how being a caregiver child impacts the child's education;
    11    (d) the circumstances that lead to a child becoming a caregiver child;
    12  and
    13    (e)  any  recommendations  on  how  to reduce the negative educational
    14  impacts of being a caregiver child.
    15    § 2. Within one year of the effective date of this  act,  the  commis-
    16  sioner  of  education  shall submit a report of the commissioner's find-
    17  ings, conclusions and recommendations to  the  governor,  the  temporary
    18  president  of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of
    19  the senate and assembly committees on education. Such report shall  also
    20  include  such legislative proposals as such commissioner deems necessary
    21  to implement the recommendations.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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