Bill Text: NY S00571 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to health education regarding alcohol, drugs, tobacco abuse and the prevention and detection of certain cancers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE [S00571 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00571-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           571
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and
          Drug Abuse
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  health  education
          regarding  alcohol,  drugs,  tobacco  abuse  and  the  prevention  and
          detection of certain cancers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 6 of section 804 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by chapter 390 of the laws of 2016, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a. The commissioner may prescribe in regulations such health education
     5  courses  which include instruction regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other
     6  drugs as the commissioner may  deem  necessary  and  desirable  for  the
     7  welfare  of pupils and the community. The contents may be varied to meet
     8  the needs of particular school districts, or portions thereof, and  need
     9  not  be  uniform  throughout  the  state, provided, however, that school
    10  districts shall utilize  either  the  curriculum  for  health  education
    11  instruction regarding alcohol, tobacco and other drugs prescribed by the
    12  commissioner or a course approved by the commissioner in accordance with
    13  criteria  established  by the commissioner. The commissioner [is author-
    14  ized to] shall make recommendations to the board  of  regents  beginning
    15  December  first,  two thousand [fourteen] nineteen and every [three] two
    16  years thereafter relating  to  the  modernization  of  such  instruction
    17  required  pursuant  to  subdivision  one of this section, to include the
    18  most up to date age  appropriate  information  available  regarding  the
    19  misuse  and abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, including but not
    20  limited to heroin and opioids. Such instruction shall be sequential  and
    21  comprehensive,  and  shall  include,  but not be limited to, information
    22  regarding drugs and other  substances  that  are  more  prevalent  among
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02413-02-9
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     1  school aged youth. Such recommendations shall be the result of a collab-
     2  oration  between  the department, the office of alcoholism and substance
     3  abuse services and the department of health. If  the  board  of  regents
     4  adopts  such curriculum, the curriculum requirement shall take effect no
     5  later than the next school year after such curriculum has been adopted.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.