Senate Bill S9429

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the college student suicide prevention act

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education 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-S9429 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9923
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §6438-d, Ed L

2023-S9429 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the college student suicide prevention act to provide for policies, guidelines and training opportunities to effectively and appropriately prevent student suicide, intervene in crisis situations, and support college communities in postvention.

2023-S9429 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9429 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9429
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting  the  college
   student suicide prevention act
 
   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 "college student suicide prevention act".
   §  2.  The  education law is amended by adding a new section 6438-d to
 read as follows:
   § 6438-D. COLLEGE  STUDENT  SUICIDE  PREVENTION  ACT.  1.  LEGISLATIVE
 INTENT. THE LEGISLATURE FINDS AND DECLARES THE FOLLOWING:
   (A) ACCORDING TO DATA FROM THE FEDERAL CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND
 PREVENTION  AS  REPORTED IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, SUICIDE IS
 THE SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR YOUTH  AND  YOUNG  ADULTS  TEN  TO
 TWENTY-FOUR  YEARS  OF AGE, INCLUSIVE, ACROSS BOTH THE STATE OF NEW YORK
 AND THE UNITED STATES. SUICIDE RATES NEARLY DOUBLED AMONG NEW YORK STATE
 YOUTH IN THIS AGE RANGE FROM THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SEVEN TO THE YEAR TWO
 THOUSAND EIGHTEEN. ONE IN FOUR SURVEYED YOUNG ADULTS EIGHTEEN  TO  TWEN-
 TY-FOUR  YEARS  OF AGE, THE LARGEST AGE DEMOGRAPHIC ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES,
 REPORTED HAVING SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED SUICIDE IN THE  PRIOR  THIRTY  DAYS
 NATIONALLY.
   (B)  IN  THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE, SEPARATE REPORTS FROM THE
 HEALTHY MINDS NETWORK'S NATIONAL HEALTHY MINDS SURVEY,  THE  GALLUP  AND
 LUMINA  FOUNDATION'S  NATIONAL STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION SURVEY, AND THE
 AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH ASSOCIATION'S NATIONAL COLLEGE HEALTH ASSESSMENT
 DECLARED THAT UNITED STATES COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE EXPERIENCING  HISTORIC
 LEVELS  OF  DEPRESSION,  ANXIETY,  SUICIDAL IDEATION, FREQUENT EMOTIONAL
 STRESS, OVERALL MODERATE TO SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS,  AND  LONELI-
 NESS.
   (C)  ACCORDING  TO THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION, NEW
 YORK STATE IS NOT AMONG THE TWENTY-ONE  STATES  THAT  UNIFORMLY  REQUIRE
 INSTITUTIONS  OF  HIGHER  EDUCATION  TO  ADOPT  SPECIFIC, EVIDENCE-BASED
 SUICIDE PREVENTION POLICIES BY LAW. SUCH POLICIES  INCLUDE  THE  REGULAR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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