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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 7910                                                 A. 10163
 
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 17, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- (at request of the Governor)
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Rules
 
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M.  of
          A.  Cymbrowitz)  --  (at  request  of  the  Governor) -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to alcohol,  tobacco  and
          drug abuse education
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 804 of  the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 181 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a. The commissioner may prescribe in regulations such health education
     5  courses which include instruction regarding alcohol, tobacco, and  other
     6  drugs  as  the  commissioner  may  deem  necessary and desirable for the
     7  welfare of pupils and the community. The contents may be varied to  meet
     8  the  needs of particular school districts, or portions thereof, and need
     9  not be uniform throughout the  state,  provided,  however,  that  school

    10  districts  shall  utilize  either  the  curriculum  for health education
    11  instruction regarding alcohol, tobacco and other drugs prescribed by the
    12  commissioner or a course approved by the commissioner in accordance with
    13  criteria established by the commissioner. The commissioner is authorized
    14  to make recommendations to  the  board  of  regents  beginning  December
    15  first,  two  thousand fourteen and every three years thereafter relating
    16  to the modernization of such instruction required pursuant  to  subdivi-
    17  sion one of this section, to include the most up to date age appropriate
    18  information available regarding the misuse and abuse of alcohol, tobacco
    19  and  other drugs, including but not limited to heroin and opioids.  Such

    20  instruction shall include, but not be limited to, information  regarding
    21  drugs  and  other  substances  that are more prevalent among school aged
    22  youth. Such recommendations shall  be  the  result  of  a  collaboration
    23  between  the  department,  the  office of alcoholism and substance abuse
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD12110-01-4
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     1  services and the department of health. If the board  of  regents  adopts
     2  such  curriculum,  the curriculum requirement shall take effect no later

     3  than the next school year after such curriculum has been adopted.
     4    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided that effective
     5  immediately, all rules and regulations necessary for the  implementation
     6  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date may be promulgated prior to such
     7  effective date.