Bill Text: NJ A5306 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches of interscholastic sports programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Higher Education Committee [A5306 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-A5306-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman GABRIELA M. MOSQUERA
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
Assemblywoman LISA SWAIN
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches of interscholastic sports programs.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning sexual assault prevention training in Statewide interscholastic sports programs and supplementing chapter 11 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice, shall develop an interscholastic sports sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches. The training program shall provide:
(1) instruction concerning the prevention of sexual assault and the identification of signs of sexual assault; and
(2) information concerning the services, including treatment, counseling, legal, and medical services, available to a victim of sexual assault in accordance with the standard protocols developed by the Attorney General pursuant to subsection d. of section 6 of P.L.1985, c.404 (C.52:4B-44).
The commissioner shall update the training program as necessary to ensure that it reflects the most current information available on sexual assault prevention.
b. The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association shall require each person who coaches a public school district or nonpublic school interscholastic high school sport, and an athletic director who oversees a public school district or nonpublic school interscholastic high school sports program, to complete the training program established pursuant to subsection a. of this section every four years.
Each newly appointed coach or athletic director shall initially complete the training program during his first year in that position.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice, to develop an interscholastic sports sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches. Under the bill, the training program is required to provide:
· instruction concerning the prevention of sexual assault and the identification of signs of sexual assault; and
· information concerning the services, including treatment, counseling, legal, and medical services, available to a victim of sexual assault in accordance with the standard protocols that have been developed by the Attorney General in accordance with current law.
The bill also requires the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to require each person who coaches a public school district or nonpublic school interscholastic high school sport, and an athletic director who oversees a public school district or nonpublic school interscholastic high school sports program, to complete the training program every four years. Under the bill, each newly appointed coach or athletic director must initially complete the training program during his first year in that position.
