STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1865

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. BROUK, CLEARE, GOUNARDES, MANNION, MYRIE, SEPULVEDA
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Higher 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

          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 have on
     9  such cards the national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8.
    10    2. Each year, prior to the start of a new school year,  each  institu-
    11  tion of higher education authorized by the legislature or by the regents
    12  of the university of the state of New York to confer academic degrees in
    13  this  state  which  issues  student identification cards to its students
    14  shall certify to the regents that such  identification  cards  have  the
    15  information required under subdivision one of this section.
    16    §  3.  The  education law is amended by adding a new section 1527-b to
    17  read as follows:
    18    § 1527-b. Student  identification  cards.  1.  Each  school  district,
    19  private  school,  or  charter  school organized under this chapter which
    20  issues student identification cards to its students shall have  on  such
    21  cards  issued  to  students  in  the  ninth  through  twelfth grades the
    22  national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04558-01-3
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     1    2. Each year, prior to the start of a new  school  year,  each  school
     2  district, private school, or charter school organized under this chapter
     3  which  issues student identification cards to its students shall certify
     4  to the regents that  such  identification  cards  have  the  information
     5  required under subdivision one of this section.
     6    §  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect July 16, 2023 and shall apply to
     7  student identification cards  that  are  issued,  modified,  altered  or
     8  amended on or after such date.