D'Urso, Sayegh, Frontus, De La Rosa, Reyes, Dickens, Colton, Rivera, Miller MG, Darling, Gottfried,
Taylor, Cruz, Fahy, Seawright, Cook, Hunter, Blake, Jaffee, Fernandez, Pichardo
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Arroyo, Davila, Dilan, Ramos, Rodriguez, Simon
Amd §305, Ed L
Directs the commissioner of education to require every college for teachers or teachers college within the state to incorporate instruction in mental health within current curriculum.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5315
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
BLAKE, DAVILA, DILAN, JAFFEE, PICHARDO, RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ --
read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring teachers
colleges to incorporate a course of instruction in mental health
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 60 to read as follows:
3 60. The commissioner shall establish and enforce rules and regulations
4 requiring every college for teachers or teachers college within the
5 state to incorporate instruction in mental health within current curric-
6 ulum.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
8 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08871-01-9
