STATE OF NEW YORK
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6563--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 19, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, JACOBSON, FAHY, EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT,
WEPRIN, SHIMSKY, LAVINE, SILLITTI, O'DONNELL -- 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 an education
campaign about the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis lifeline and the crisis
text line
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 "student lifeline act".
3 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 207-b to
4 read as follows:
5 § 207-b. Crisis resources. Each degree-granting institution of higher
6 education shall establish an education campaign to educate students,
7 faculty, and staff about the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis lifeline and the
8 crisis text line. Such education campaign shall include, but not be
9 limited to:
10 1. resources describing when to utilize the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis
11 lifeline and the crisis text line; and
12 2. contact information for such services on student identification
13 cards, or the annual distribution of contact information for such
14 services at institutions that do not issue student identification cards.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025 and shall apply to
16 student identification cards that are issued, modified, altered or
17 amended on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04558-06-4
