Assembly Bill A6495

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the Tevyan Rowe child and young teen mental health community safety act

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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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2025-A6495 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 2-A §§20 - 24, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10083
2023-2024: A2821

2025-A6495 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "Tevyan Rowe child and young teen mental health community safety act"; directs boards of education to create policies, procedures, and guidelines for at-risk children and young teens who have demonstrated suicidal ideation, been victims of harassment or bullying, and/or who have eloped from school property; establishes a commission to evaluate the safety and security of children in primary and secondary public and private schools in this state.

2025-A6495 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6495
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRONSON,  SEAWRIGHT, EPSTEIN, SIMON, DAVILA,
   GLICK, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting  the  "Tevyan
   Rowe child and young teen mental health community safety act"

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 2-A to
 read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 2-A
                     CHILD & YOUNG TEEN MENTAL HEALTH
 SECTION 20. SHORT TITLE.
         21. DEFINITIONS.
         22. CHILD AND YOUNG TEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SAFETY.
         23. REPORTING.
         24. COMMISSION.
   § 20. SHORT TITLE. THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE KNOWN AND MAY BE CITED AS THE
 "TEVYAN ROWE CHILD AND YOUNG TEEN MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY SAFETY ACT".
   § 21. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  FOLLOWING
 TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1.  "HARASSMENT"  AND  "BULLYING" SHALL MEAN THE CREATION OF A HOSTILE
 ENVIRONMENT BY CONDUCT OR BY THREATS, INTIMIDATION OR  ABUSE,  INCLUDING
 CYBERBULLYING, THAT (A) HAS OR WOULD HAVE THE EFFECT OF UNREASONABLY AND
 SUBSTANTIALLY  INTERFERING  WITH  A  STUDENT'S  EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE,
 OPPORTUNITIES OR BENEFITS, OR MENTAL, EMOTIONAL OR PHYSICAL  WELL-BEING;
 OR  (B)  REASONABLY  CAUSES  OR  WOULD REASONABLY BE EXPECTED TO CAUSE A
 STUDENT TO FEAR FOR SUCH STUDENT'S PHYSICAL SAFETY;  OR  (C)  REASONABLY
 CAUSES  OR  WOULD  REASONABLY  BE  EXPECTED  TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY OR
 EMOTIONAL HARM TO A STUDENT; OR  (D)  OCCURS  OFF  SCHOOL  PROPERTY  AND
 CREATES  OR  WOULD  FORESEEABLY  CREATE A RISK OF SUBSTANTIAL DISRUPTION
 WITHIN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, WHERE IT IS FORESEEABLE THAT THE CONDUCT,
 THREATS, INTIMIDATION OR ABUSE MIGHT  REACH  SCHOOL  PROPERTY.  ACTS  OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03597-02-5
              

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