Requires the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents relating to the adoption of age-appropriate instruction on dating violence prevention and healthy relationships for students in grades seven through twelve.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1566--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. SALAZAR, BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education --
recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the commis-
sioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents
relating to the adoption of instruction on dating violence prevention
and healthy relationships for students in grades seven through twelve
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 63 to read as follows:
3 63. a. The commissioner shall make recommendations to the regents
4 relating to the adoption of instruction on dating violence prevention
5 and healthy relationships that is age-appropriate into the annual
6 curriculum framework for students in grades seven through twelve and
7 which shall be incorporated into various class subjects, including
8 health.
9 b. Prior to making the recommendations to the regents, the commission-
10 er shall:
11 (i) seek the recommendations of teachers, school administrators,
12 teacher educators and others with educational expertise in the proposed
13 curriculum;
14 (ii) seek comment from parents, students and other interested parties;
15 (iii) consider the amount of instructional time such curriculum will
16 require and whether such time would detract from other mandated courses
17 of study;
18 (iv) consider the fiscal impact, if any, on the state and school
19 districts; and
20 (v) consider any additional factors the commissioner deems relevant.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 c. No later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of
2 this subdivision, the commissioner shall provide a recommendation to the
3 regents to either adopt and promulgate appropriate rules and regulations
4 implementing such curriculum or to reject the implementation of such
5 curriculum. Upon receiving a recommendation from the commissioner pursu-
6 ant to this subdivision, the regents shall vote to either accept or
7 reject the commissioner's recommendation no later than sixty days after
8 receiving such recommendation.
9 d. If the regents adopt such curriculum, the curriculum requirement
10 shall take effect no later than the next school year after such curric-
11 ulum has been adopted.
12 e. If the regents reject such curriculum, the commissioner shall
13 provide a report as to the determination of the regents to the governor,
14 the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and
15 the chairs of the senate and assembly committees on education providing
16 the reasons for such rejection not later than thirty days after the
17 regents reject such curriculum.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
