Assembly Bill A5727

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires instruction on conflict resolution for elementary, middle, and high school students

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A5727 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7171
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §805, Ed L

2023-A5727 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires age-appropriate instruction on conflict resolution for elementary, middle, and high school students; requires the commissioner to develop curricula for schools in the state for such instruction; directs the commissioner to develop resource materials to facilitate such instruction.

2023-A5727 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5727
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MEEKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  instruction
   on  conflict  resolution  for  elementary,  middle,  and  high  school
   students
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 805 to
 read as follows:
   § 805. INSTRUCTION ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION. 1. EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,
 MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND HIGH SCHOOL SHALL INCLUDE AGE-APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTION
 ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE REQUIRED CURRICULUM.
   2.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  DEVELOP CURRICULA FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF
 CHILDREN IN GRADES KINDERGARTEN THROUGH TWELFTH GRADE ON CONFLICT RESOL-
 UTION WHICH SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,  AGE-APPROPRIATE
 INSTRUCTION ON DIFFUSING CONFLICT AND COPING MECHANISMS FOR DEALING WITH
 CONFLICT  AT  HOME  AND BETWEEN PEERS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE
 RULES AND/OR REGULATIONS REQUIRING THE INSTRUCTION OF SUCH CURRICULA  AT
 ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, MIDDLE SCHOOLS, AND HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE STATE.
   3.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  DEVELOP  AND  MAKE  AVAILABLE FOR SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS IN THE STATE ANY RESOURCE  MATERIALS  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL
 DEEM  NECESSARY  AND  APPROPRIATE TO FACILITATE THE INSTRUCTION REQUIRED
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09520-01-3

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