BILL NO A00515
SAME AS SAME AS S01048
SPONSOR Cusick (MS)
COSPNSR Gibson, Abbate, Rozic
MLTSPNSR
Add SS815 & 2803, Ed L
Requires dating violence education and dating violence policies in school
districts, board of cooperative educational services and county vocational
education and extension boards; establishes that "dating violence" means a
pattern of behavior where one person uses threats of, or actually uses,
physical, sexual, verbal or emotional abuse to control his or her dating
partner; requires the department, in conjunction with the office for the
prevention of domestic violence, to assist schools in developing a policy for
dating violence incidents; requires such education to be taught to students
regarding dating violence in the annual health curriculum framework for
students in grades 7 through 12.
