Bill Text: NJ A3713 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

New Jersey Assembly Bill 3713 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.*

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-11 - Assembly Floor Amendment Passed (Jasey) [A3713 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3713-Amended.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3713

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman SHAVONDA E. SUMTER

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblyman RAJ MUKHERJI

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblywoman MARY PAT ANGELINI

District 11 (Monmouth)

Assemblywoman CELESTE M. RILEY

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Rible, Gusciora, S.Kean, McKeon, Wimberly and Fuentes

SYNOPSIS

Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidance for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

As amended by the General Assembly on June 11, 2015.

An Act concerning substance abuse instruction for public school students and supplementing P.L.1987, c.389 (C.18A:40A-1 et seq.).

Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. a. The ¹[State Board] Department¹ of Education, in consultation with the Division of Addiction Services in the Department of Human Services, shall review the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education to ensure that ¹guidance for¹ substance abuse instruction incorporates the most recent evidence-based standards and practices.

b. Within 120 days of the effective date of this act, the ¹[State board] department¹ shall issue a written report ¹[regarding the review required pursuant to subsection a. of this section]¹ to the Governor ¹, to the State Board of Education¹, and to the Legislature as provided under section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1)¹, with its determination on whether the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education adequately incorporate the most recent evidence-based standards and practices pursuant to subsection a. of this section. If the department determines that the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education need to be revised, it shall propose the revisions to the State board within 12 months of the report's submission¹. ¹[The report shall include: the methodology used by the State board in its review; the strengths and weaknesses of the Core Curriculum Content Standards on substance abuse; and an analysis of the extent to which the Core Curriculum Content Standards on substance abuse incorporate the most recent evidence-based standards and practices.]¹