Authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations authorizing school curriculums to include programs designed to educate students on the immediate and consequential dangers associated with the use of alcohol.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3754
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to instruction relating
to the dangers associated with the use of alcohol
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. Dangers associated with the use of alcohol. 1. In addition to
4 instruction otherwise required by section eight hundred four of this
5 article, the commissioner is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and
6 regulations directing all schools to include, as an integral part of the
7 school curriculum, programs designed to educate students about the imme-
8 diate and consequential dangers associated with the use of alcohol. Such
9 programs shall include, but not be limited to, the dangers of drinking
10 and driving as well as such other issues closely related to the use of
11 alcohol.
12 2. The programs authorized by subdivision one of this section shall be
13 designed by the department in conjunction with the office of alcoholism
14 and substance abuse services.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
16 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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