BILL NO A00518
SAME AS No same as
SPONSOR Cusick (MS)
COSPNSR Titone, Castro, Wright, Gabryszak, Simotas, Gibson, Miller,
Stevenson, Lavine, Colton, Abbate, Arroyo, Brennan, Clark, Katz,
Malliotakis, McDonough, Perry, Ra, Saladino, Scarborough, Thiele,
Weisenberg
MLTSPNSR
Add SS817, 2803 & 816, 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; "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 and includes threats made
by cell phone, text message, internet, and other electronic means; requires the
department, in conjunction with, to assist schools in developing a policy for
dating violence incidents; education to be taught to students regarding dating
violence in the annual health curriculum framework for students in grades 7
through 12, and requires respect and self-esteem education be incorporated into
the curriculum for students in grades k-6.
