Bill Text: NY A09371 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner to establish domestic violence awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; requires content to be age appropriate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-06 - referred to education [A09371 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09371-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9371

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  requiring  domestic
          violence awareness curriculum or instruction

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  804-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  804-e.  Domestic  violence awareness curriculum or instruction.  1.
     4  The  commissioner,  in  consultation  with  the  state  office  for  the
     5  prevention  of  domestic  violence,  the  office  of children and family
     6  services, and any other appropriate  agency,  shall  establish  domestic
     7  violence  awareness  curriculum or instruction for school districts. The
     8  contents may be varied to meet the needs of particular school districts,
     9  or portions thereof, and need not be uniform throughout the  state.  The
    10  content shall be age appropriate and shall be developed according to the
    11  needs  and  abilities  of  pupils at successive grade levels in order to
    12  provide skills, information, and support to  aid  in  domestic  violence
    13  awareness.
    14    2.  Schools  may  include  the  above  materials as a component of its
    15  health curriculum or any other way the school deems appropriate.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14593-01-4