Requires health instruction to include 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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1046--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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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 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 804 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
3 5-a. Instruction regarding dating violence prevention and healthy
4 relationships that is age-appropriate shall be included in the health
5 education provided for students in grades seven through twelve. The
6 content of such instruction shall be developed with consideration given
7 to the recommendations of teachers, school administrators, and others
8 with educational expertise in the proposed instructional topics. Any
9 such instruction shall be taught by teachers holding a certificate to
10 teach health. The commissioner may prescribe in regulations such health
11 education courses which include instruction regarding dating violence
12 prevention and healthy relationships as the commissioner may deem neces-
13 sary and desirable for the welfare of pupils and the community.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
15 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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