Assembly Bill A6563

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires student identification cards to contain the new national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line, 741741

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A6563 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1865
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §207-b, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9692, S8410

2023-A6563 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires student identification cards to contain the new national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line, with instructions "Text GOT5 to 741741."

2023-A6563 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6563
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  student
   identification  cards  to  contain the new national suicide prevention
   lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line, 741741

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "student lifeline act".
   § 2. The education law is amended by adding a  new  section  207-b  to
 read as follows:
   §  207-B.  STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARDS. 1. EACH INSTITUTION OF HIGHER
 EDUCATION AUTHORIZED BY THE LEGISLATURE OR BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVER-
 SITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO CONFER ACADEMIC DEGREES IN  THIS  STATE
 WHICH  ISSUES STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARDS TO ITS STUDENTS SHALL INCLUDE
 ON SUCH CARDS:
   A. THE NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE NUMBER, 9-8-8; AND
   B. THE CRISIS TEXT LINE, WITH INSTRUCTIONS "TEXT GOT5 TO 741741".
   2. EACH YEAR, PRIOR TO THE START OF A NEW SCHOOL YEAR,  EACH  INSTITU-
 TION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORIZED BY THE LEGISLATURE OR BY THE REGENTS
 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO CONFER ACADEMIC DEGREES IN
 THIS  STATE  WHICH  ISSUES  STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARDS TO ITS STUDENTS
 SHALL CERTIFY TO THE REGENTS THAT SUCH  IDENTIFICATION  CARDS  HAVE  THE
 INFORMATION REQUIRED UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect July 16, 2024 and shall apply to
 student identification cards  that  are  issued,  modified,  altered  or
 amended on or after such date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04558-04-3

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