Enacts the college student suicide prevention act to provide for policies, procedures and guidelines on suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for every higher education institution.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4921--C
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, BURDICK, SHIMSKY, McMAHON,
SEAWRIGHT, HEVESI, EACHUS, GLICK, REYES, SIMON, STIRPE, GIBBS,
FORREST, SAYEGH, GIGLIO, SHRESTHA, CLARK, PAULIN, ZACCARO, GALLAGHER,
SMITH, R. CARROLL, SIMONE, TAPIA, LUNSFORD, DAVILA, KELLES, NOVAKHOV
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on High-
er Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amend-
ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the college
student suicide prevention act
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "college student suicide prevention act".
3 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6438-e to
4 read as follows:
5 § 6438-e. College student suicide prevention act. The governing board
6 or body of every higher education institution shall, before the first
7 day of August, two thousand twenty-seven, adopt policies, procedures,
8 and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention, and postven-
9 tion. Such policies, procedures, and guidelines shall be developed in
10 consultation with collegiate and community stakeholders, campus-employed
11 mental health professionals, and suicide prevention experts.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07650-07-6
