Requires the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents relating to the adoption of instruction in information relating to blood, bone marrow and organ and tissue donations in senior high schools.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5004--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, MOSLEY, McDONALD, COLTON, SKOUFIS, THIELE,
CAHILL, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, CRESPO, ENGLE-
BRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education --
recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly
Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the commis-
sioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents
relating to the adoption of instruction in information relating to
blood, bone marrow and organ and tissue donations in senior high
schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
3 57. a. The commissioner shall make recommendations to the board of
4 regents relating to the adoption of instruction in information relating
5 to blood, bone marrow and organ and tissue donations and the ways in
6 which such donations can be beneficial to others, in senior high
7 schools.
8 b. Prior to making the recommendations to the board of regents, the
9 commissioner shall:
10 (i) seek the recommendations of teachers, school administrators,
11 teacher educators and others with educational expertise in the proposed
12 curriculum;
13 (ii) seek comment from parents, students and other interested parties;
14 (iii) consider the amount of instructional time such curriculum will
15 require and whether such time would detract from other mandated courses
16 of study;
17 (iv) consider the fiscal impact, if any, on the state and school
18 districts; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (v) consider any additional factors the commissioner deems relevant.
2 c. No later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of
3 this subdivision, the commissioner shall provide a recommendation to the
4 board of regents to either adopt and promulgate appropriate rules and
5 regulations implementing such curriculum or reject the implementation of
6 such curriculum. Upon receiving a recommendation from the commissioner,
7 pursuant to this subdivision, the board of regents shall vote to either
8 accept or reject the commissioner's recommendation no later than sixty
9 days after receiving such recommendation.
10 d. If the board of regents adopts such curriculum, the curriculum
11 requirement shall take effect no later than the next school year after
12 such curriculum has been adopted.
13 e. If the board of regents rejects such curriculum, the commissioner
14 shall provide a report to the determination of the board to the gover-
15 nor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly
16 and the chairs of the senate and assembly committees on education
17 providing the reasons for such rejection not later than thirty days
18 after the board of regents rejects such curriculum.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
