Bill Text: NY S05198 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5198

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-19 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S05198 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S05198-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5198

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 19, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL, BROUK, GIANARIS, HINCHEY, KRUEGER,
          LIU, RIVERA, SALAZAR -- read  twice  and  ordered  printed,  and  when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring schools to
          include instruction on the prevention of eating disorders as an  inte-
          gral 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 5-a is added to read as follows:
     4    Health  education  regarding  mental  health,  alcohol, drugs, tobacco
     5  abuse, eating disorders and the  prevention  and  detection  of  certain
     6  cancers.
     7    5-a.  All  schools shall include, as an integral part of health educa-
     8  tion provided for all students in grades six through twelve, instruction
     9  regarding the prevention of eating disorders as  a  component  of  their
    10  nutrition  programs. Such instruction shall be designed according to the
    11  age-appropriate needs and abilities of the pupils  at  successive  grade
    12  levels,  with the purpose of fostering and developing healthy self-image
    13  and preparing pupils to live healthy lives. In developing such  instruc-
    14  tion,  the  commissioner may consult with the comprehensive care centers
    15  for eating disorders established  pursuant  to  article  thirty  of  the
    16  mental hygiene law.
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    18  succeeding the date upon which it shall have  become  a  law.  Effective
    19  immediately,  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
    20  lation necessary for the implementation of this  act  on  its  effective
    21  date are authorized to be made on or before such date.

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