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

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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-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6563--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CLARK,  JACOBSON,  FAHY, EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT,
          WEPRIN, SHIMSKY, LAVINE, SILLITTI, O'DONNELL -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Education  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
          Education  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring an education
          campaign about the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis lifeline  and  the  crisis
          text line

          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.  Crisis resources. Each degree-granting institution of higher
     6  education shall establish an education  campaign  to  educate  students,
     7  faculty,  and  staff about the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis lifeline and the
     8  crisis text line. Such education campaign  shall  include,  but  not  be
     9  limited to:
    10    1.  resources  describing when to utilize the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis
    11  lifeline and the crisis text line; and
    12    2. contact information for such  services  on  student  identification
    13  cards,  or  the  annual  distribution  of  contact  information for such
    14  services at institutions that do not issue student identification cards.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect  July  1,  2025  and  shall  apply  to
    16  student  identification  cards  that  are  issued,  modified, altered or
    17  amended on or after such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04558-06-4