STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
3915--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 26, 2013
___________
Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 instruction related to
the prevention of suicide as an integral part of health education
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. Instruction related to the prevention of suicide among
4 youths. 1. All schools shall be authorized to include, as an integral
5 part of health education, instruction regarding the prevention of
6 suicide among youths.
7 2. Instruction regarding the prevention of suicide may be included in
8 the health education provided for all secondary school pupils and shall
9 be taught by teachers certified in health education. Related courses in
10 the secondary school curriculum may be taught in a manner supportive of
11 health education regarding the prevention of suicide among youths. Such
12 curriculum shall include instruction relating to the signs and responses
13 to depression and the risks of suicide among youths.
14 3. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to identify
15 or develop materials on the prevention of suicide among youths for the
16 welfare of pupils and the community to be available in school districts
17 and shall be made available on the internet website of the department.
18 The contents may be varied to meet the needs of particular school
19 districts, or portions thereof, and need not be uniform throughout the
20 state.
21 4. School authorities shall be authorized to provide the needed facil-
22 ities, time, and place for the instruction set forth in this section and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00168-04-4
S. 3915--A 2
1 to provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials which
2 contribute to effective teaching methods and learning in health educa-
3 tion regarding the prevention of suicide among youths.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
5 the date on which it shall have become a law.
