Bill Text: NJ S550 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain student identification cards to contain telephone number for suicide prevention hotline.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-3)

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-08 - Approved P.L.2021, c.261. [S550 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S550-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 550

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2020 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  RICHARD J. CODEY

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

Senator  JOSEPH PENNACCHIO

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Corrado, Pou and Gopal

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires certain student identification cards to contain telephone number for suicide prevention hotline.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the General Assembly on March 25, 2021.

  

An Act concerning student suicide prevention and supplementing chapter 6 and chapter 3B 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 public school that includes any of the grades seven through 12 and that issues student identification cards shall have printed on the back of the student identification cards the telephone number for ¹[a suicide prevention hotline] the New Jersey Suicide Prevention Hopeline (NJ Hopeline) and contact information for a crisis text line¹.

 

     2.    An institution of higher education that issues student identification cards shall have printed on the back of the student identification cards the telephone number for ¹[a suicide prevention hotline] the New Jersey Suicide Prevention Hopeline (NJ Hopeline) and contact information for a crisis text line¹.

 

     ¹3.   A public school that includes any of the grades seven through 12 and that issues student identification cards, and an institution of higher education that issues student identification cards, may, in addition to the telephone number for the NJ Hopeline and contact information for a crisis text line, provide contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, an on-campus crisis center, or any other mental health support service.¹

 

     ¹[3.Section 1 of this] 4.   This¹ act shall take effect in the first full school year ¹[following the date of enactment, and section 2 of this act shall take effect] or¹ in the first full academic year ¹, as applicable,¹ following the date of enactment.