Requires the commissioner to establish domestic violence awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; requires content to be age appropriate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5691
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, VANEL, CLARK -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring domestic
violence awareness curriculum or instruction
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 804-e
2 to read as follows:
3 § 804-e. Domestic violence awareness curriculum or instruction. 1.
4 The commissioner, in consultation with the state office for the
5 prevention of domestic violence, the office of children and family
6 services, and any other appropriate agency, shall establish domestic
7 violence awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts. The
8 contents may be varied to meet the needs of particular school districts,
9 or portions thereof, and need not be uniform throughout the state. The
10 content shall be age appropriate and shall be developed according to the
11 needs and abilities of pupils at successive grade levels in order to
12 provide skills, information, and support to aid in domestic violence
13 awareness.
14 2. Schools may include the above materials as a component of its
15 health curriculum or any other way the school deems appropriate.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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