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Senate Bill S10369

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to interpersonal violence prevention classes in secondary high schools

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2025-S10369 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §804, Ed L

2025-S10369 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all secondary high schools to include the legal and social consequences of disseminating sexually explicit messages, imagery or video and cyberbullying in interpersonal violence prevention education in health classes.

2025-S10369 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10369
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing  for  health
   education  pertaining  to  certain  interpersonal  violence prevention
   education for secondary high school students
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  section  heading and paragraph b of subdivision 6 of
 section 804 of the education law, as amended by chapter 390 of the  laws
 of 2016, are amended to read as follows:
   Health  education  regarding  mental  health,  alcohol, drugs, tobacco
 abuse [and], the  prevention  and  detection  of  certain  cancers,  AND
 CERTAIN VIOLENCE PREVENTION.
   b. (I) The commissioner shall make available an interpersonal violence
 prevention  education  package  for  grades kindergarten through twelve,
 which package may consist of student pamphlets, parent pamphlets,  vide-
 otapes  and  other  informative  materials  to  be distributed to school
 districts, and shall encourage the use of such material as part  of  the
 health  or  other related curricula or programs, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION EDUCATION IS REQUIRED FOR  ALL  HEALTH
 EDUCATION  COURSES  AT  THE  SECONDARY  HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL IN ORDER FOR A
 STUDENT TO GRADUATE.
   (II) WITHIN THE INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE  PREVENTION  EDUCATION  PACKAGE
 FOR  ALL SECONDARY HIGH SCHOOLS, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE INSTRUC-
 TION REGARDING CERTAIN VIOLENCE PREVENTION, INCLUDING, BUT  NOT  LIMITED
 TO, THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF DISSEMINATING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT
 MESSAGES,  IMAGERY  OR VIDEO AND CYBERBULLYING AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
 EIGHT OF SECTION ELEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER. INSTRUCTION SHALL ALSO  INCLUDE
 THE  EDUCATION  REFORM  PROGRAM  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION FOUR
 HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT-L OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13505-01-5

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