Bill Text: NY S07582 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Requires courses of study in private schools in the prevention of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse for pupils in grades K-8.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - PRINT NUMBER 7582A [S07582 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07582-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7582--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the teaching
          of courses in the prevention of child abuse at private schools

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 803-b of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 187 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  All  pupils in grades K-8 in all public and private schools in the
     4  state shall receive instruction designed to prevent child sexual exploi-
     5  tation and child sexual abuse. Such program  shall  be  defined  by  the
     6  commissioner  in  regulations  after consultation with the department of
     7  health and be designed to educate students, parents and school personnel
     8  about the prevention of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse
     9  in grades kindergarten through eight. Such program  shall  include,  but
    10  not  be  limited  to students and parents. Nothing in this section shall
    11  prevent the department from making model curriculum and resource materi-
    12  als available on the department's website.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    14  the date on which it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14806-02-0