Assembly Bill A10747

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Clarifies health education

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A10747 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8223
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §804, Ed L (as proposed in S.6046-A & A.3887-B)
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A362, S984

2015-A10747 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that all schools shall ensure that their health education programs recognize the multiple dimensions of health by including mental health and the relation of physical and mental health so as to enhance student understanding, attitudes and behaviors that promote health, well-being and human dignity.

2015-A10747 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10747

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            December 23, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  clarifying  health
  education

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

  Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 804  of  the  education  law,  as
amended  by  a  chapter  of the laws of 2016, amending the education law
relating to clarifying health  education,  as  proposed  in  legislative
bills numbers S.  6046-A and A. 3887-B, is amended to read as follows:
  1. All schools [under the jurisdiction of the department] shall ensure
that  their  health education programs recognize the multiple dimensions
of health by including mental health and the relation  of  physical  and
mental  health  so  as  to  enhance student understanding, attitudes and
behaviors that promote health, well-being and human dignity.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
manner  as  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2016, amending the education law
relating to clarifying health  education,  as  proposed  in  legislative
bills numbers S. 6046-A and A.  3887-B, takes effect.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06654-09-6

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