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Assembly Bill A10070

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse health education

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2013-A10070 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง804, Ed L

2013-A10070 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse health education; provides most up to date age appropriate information.

2013-A10070 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10070

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 11, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cymbrowitz,
  Gottfried) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to alcohol,  tobacco  and
  drug abuse health education

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

  Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 804 of  the  educa-
tion  law,  as amended by chapter 181 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
read as follows:
  a. The commissioner may prescribe in regulations such health education
courses which include instruction regarding alcohol, tobacco, and  other
drugs  as  the  commissioner  may  deem  necessary and desirable for the
welfare of pupils and the community. The contents may be varied to  meet
the  needs of particular school districts, or portions thereof, and need
not be uniform throughout the  state,  provided,  however,  that  school
districts  shall  utilize  either  the  curriculum  for health education
instruction regarding alcohol, tobacco and other drugs prescribed by the
commissioner or a course approved by the commissioner in accordance with
criteria established by the commissioner. THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED
TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO  THE  BOARD  OF  REGENTS  BEGINNING  DECEMBER
FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND FOURTEEN AND EVERY THREE YEARS THEREAFTER RELATING
TO THE MODERNIZATION OF SUCH INSTRUCTION REQUIRED PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVI-
SION ONE OF THIS SECTION, TO INCLUDE THE MOST UP TO DATE AGE APPROPRIATE
INFORMATION AVAILABLE REGARDING THE MISUSE AND ABUSE OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO
AND  OTHER DRUGS. SUCH INSTRUCTION SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,
INFORMATION REGARDING DRUGS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES THAT ARE MORE PREVALENT
AMONG SCHOOL AGED YOUTH. SUCH RECOMMENDATIONS SHALL BE THE RESULT  OF  A
COLLABORATION  BETWEEN  THE  DEPARTMENT,  THE  OFFICE  OF ALCOHOLISM AND
SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. IF THE  BOARD  OF
REGENTS  ADOPTS  SUCH  CURRICULUM, THE CURRICULUM REQUIREMENT SHALL TAKE
EFFECT NO LATER THAN THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR AFTER SUCH CURRICULUM HAS BEEN
ADOPTED.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15518-02-4

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