COSPNSR | Ortiz, De La Rosa, Gottfried, Glick, Simon, Rozic, Colton, Cusick, Barron, Abinanti, Englebright,
Magnarelli, D'Urso, Pretlow, Ryan, Ramos, Lavine, Wright, Lentol, Thiele, Hevesi, Hunter, Gunther,
Rodriguez, Vanel, Cook, Dickens, Titone, Pichardo, Blake, Titus, Miller MG, McDonald, Seawright,
Taylor, Rosenthal L, Richardson, Jenne, Epstein |
Requires dating violence education and dating violence policies in school districts, boards 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. |