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Assembly Bill A6645

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to health education regarding alcohol, drugs, tobacco abuse and the prevention and detection of certain cancers

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2019-A6645 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S571
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §804, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7675
2017-2018: S1829

2019-A6645 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to health education regarding alcohol, drugs, tobacco abuse and the prevention and detection of certain cancers.

2019-A6645 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6645
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  health  education
   regarding  alcohol,  drugs,  tobacco  abuse  and  the  prevention  and
   detection of certain cancers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 6 of section 804 of the educa-
 tion law, as amended by chapter 390 of the laws of 2016, 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 author-
 ized to] SHALL make recommendations to the board  of  regents  beginning
 December  first,  two thousand [fourteen] NINETEEN and every [three] TWO
 years thereafter relating  to  the  modernization  of  such  instruction
 required  pursuant  to  subdivision  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, including but not
 limited to heroin and opioids. Such instruction shall BE SEQUENTIAL  AND
 COMPREHENSIVE,  AND  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 collab-
 oration  between  the department, the office of alcoholism and substance
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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