Requires the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents relating to the adoption of age-appropriate instruction on dating violence for students in grades seven through twelve.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7023
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, SIMOTAS, M. G. MILLER, LAVINE, ABBATE,
ARROYO, MALLIOTAKIS, McDONOUGH, PERRY, RA, THIELE, PAULIN, WALLACE --
read once and referred to the Committee on Education
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 on dating violence 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. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "Jessica Tush act".
3 § 2. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
5 57. a. The commissioner shall make recommendations to the regents
6 relating to the adoption of instruction on dating violence that is age-
7 appropriate into the annual curriculum framework for students in grades
8 seven through twelve and which shall be incorporated into various class
9 subjects, including health.
10 b. Prior to making the recommendations to the regents, the commission-
11 er shall:
12 (i) seek the recommendations of teachers, school administrators,
13 teacher educators and others with educational expertise in the proposed
14 curriculum;
15 (ii) seek comment from parents, students and other interested parties;
16 (iii) consider the amount of instructional time such curriculum will
17 require and whether such time would detract from other mandated courses
18 of study;
19 (iv) consider the fiscal impact, if any, on the state and school
20 districts; and
21 (v) consider any additional factors the commissioner deems relevant.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 c. No later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of
2 this subdivision, the commissioner shall provide a recommendation to the
3 regents to either adopt and promulgate appropriate rules and regulations
4 implementing such curriculum or to reject the implementation of such
5 curriculum. Upon receiving a recommendation from the commissioner pursu-
6 ant to this subdivision, the regents shall vote to either accept or
7 reject the commissioner's recommendation no later than sixty days after
8 receiving such recommendation.
9 d. If the regents adopt such curriculum, the curriculum requirement
10 shall take effect no later than the next school year after such curric-
11 ulum has been adopted.
12 e. If the regents reject such curriculum, the commissioner shall
13 provide a report as to the determination of the regents to the governor,
14 the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and
15 the chairs of the senate and assembly committees on education providing
16 the reasons for such rejection not later than thirty days after the
17 regents reject such curriculum.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
