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Assembly Bill A10342

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Establishes guidelines for school administrators to contact the parents of students who are bullied, harassed, intimidated or assaulted by another student

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2011-A10342 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง13, Ed L

2011-A10342 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes guidelines for school administrators to contact the parents of students who are bullied, harassed, intimidated or assaulted by another student.

2011-A10342 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10342

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 23, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. TEDISCO, RAIA, TITONE, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Spon-
  sored by -- M. of A.  CALHOUN, J. MILLER -- read once and referred  to
  the Committee on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to establishing guide-
  lines for school administrators to contact the parents of students who
  are bullied, harassed, intimidated or assaulted by another student

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph b of subdivision 2 and subdivision 3 of section
13 of the education law, as added by chapter 482 of the  laws  of  2010,
are amended and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
  b.  to  enable  employees  to prevent and respond to discrimination or
harassment; [and]
  3.  Guidelines  relating  to  the  development  of   nondiscriminatory
instructional  and  counseling  methods, and requiring that at least one
staff member at every school  be  thoroughly  trained  to  handle  human
relations  in  the areas of race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic
group, religion, religious  practice,  disability,  sexual  orientation,
gender, and sex[.]; AND
  4.  GUIDELINES  REQUIRING  SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS TO MAKE AN HONEST AND
RESPONSIBLE ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THE PARENTS OF A  STUDENT  WHO  IS  BEING
BULLIED, HARASSED, INTIMIDATED OR ASSAULTED BY ANOTHER STUDENT WHEN SUCH
BULLIED,  HARASSED, INTIMIDATED OR ASSAULTED STUDENT REQUESTS ASSISTANCE
FROM THE SCHOOL.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
manner as section 2 of chapter 482 of the laws of 2010, takes effect.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15947-01-2

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