Bill Text: NY A06563 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires student identification cards to contain the new national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-09 - signed chap.312 [A06563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06563-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6563

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  student
          identification  cards  to  contain the new national suicide prevention
          lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line, 741741

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "student lifeline act".
     3    § 2. The education law is amended by adding a  new  section  207-b  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  207-b.  Student identification cards. 1. Each institution of higher
     6  education authorized by the legislature or by the regents of the univer-
     7  sity of the state of New York to confer academic degrees in  this  state
     8  which  issues student identification cards to its students shall include
     9  on such cards:
    10    a. the national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8; and
    11    b. the crisis text line, with instructions "Text GOT5 to 741741".
    12    2. Each year, prior to the start of a new school year,  each  institu-
    13  tion of higher education authorized by the legislature or by the regents
    14  of the university of the state of New York to confer academic degrees in
    15  this  state  which  issues  student identification cards to its students
    16  shall certify to the regents that such  identification  cards  have  the
    17  information required under subdivision one of this section.
    18    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect July 16, 2024 and shall apply to
    19  student identification cards  that  are  issued,  modified,  altered  or
    20  amended on or after such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04558-04-3