Bill Text: NY A09050 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of co-occurring disorders as an integral part of their health education programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-05 - referred to education [A09050 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09050-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9050

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. K. BROWN, BENDETT -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  schools  to
          include  prevention  of  co-occurring disorders as an integral part of
          their health education programs

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

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 804 of the education law, as
     2  amended  by chapter 390 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdi-
     3  vision 2-a is added to read as follows:
     4    Health education regarding  mental  health,  alcohol,  drugs,  tobacco
     5  abuse,  co-occurring  disorders  and  the  prevention  and  detection of
     6  certain cancers.
     7    2-a. (a) All schools shall include, as  an  integral  part  of  health
     8  education, instruction on the prevention of co-occurring disorders, such
     9  as mental health issues and the misuse and abuse of alcohol, tobacco and
    10  other drugs.
    11    (b)  Such  instruction  shall  be  designed according to the needs and
    12  abilities of the pupils at successive grade levels with the  purpose  of
    13  educating  about  the  importance of maintaining mental health and well-
    14  ness, fostering and developing healthy decision making through an under-
    15  standing of pathways to substance misuse/addiction and preparing  pupils
    16  to  live healthy lives. In developing such instruction, the commissioner
    17  may consult with the advisory council on  underage  alcohol  consumption
    18  and  youth substance abuse, established pursuant to section 19.06 of the
    19  mental hygiene law,  and  the  adolescent  suicide  prevention  program,
    20  established pursuant to section 41.49 of the mental hygiene law.
    21    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    22  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    23  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    24  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    25  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13769-02-3