Senate Bill S1537

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the student suicide prevention act

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • 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-S1537 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10551
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 2-A §§20 - 24, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7138
2021-2022: S82, A7762

2023-S1537 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades.

2023-S1537 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1537 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1537
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, BRISPORT, GOUNARDES, MYRIE, PARKER,
   SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
   committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the student
   suicide prevention act

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "student suicide prevention act".
   § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new article 2-A to  read
 as follows:
                                 ARTICLE 2-A
                        STUDENT SUICIDE PREVENTION
 SECTION 20. LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
         21. DEFINITIONS.
         22. POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND GUIDELINES.
         23. APPLICATION.
         24. SEVERABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION.
   §  20.  LEGISLATIVE  INTENT.  THE  LEGISLATURE  FINDS AND DECLARES THE
 FOLLOWING: 1.  ACCORDING TO DATA FROM THE FEDERAL  CENTERS  FOR  DISEASE
 CONTROL  AND  PREVENTION  AS  REPORTED IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN,
 SUICIDE IS THE SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR YOUTH AND YOUNG  ADULTS
 TEN  TO  TWENTY-FOUR  YEARS OF AGE, INCLUSIVE, IN BOTH THE UNITED STATES
 AND IN NEW YORK STATE.
   2. AS CHILDREN AND TEENS SPEND A SIGNIFICANT  AMOUNT  OF  THEIR  YOUNG
 LIVES  IN  SCHOOL, THE PERSONNEL WHO INTERACT WITH THEM ON A DAILY BASIS
 ARE ESSENTIAL GATEKEEPERS FOR RECOGNIZING WARNING SIGNS OF  SUICIDE  AND
 MAKING THE APPROPRIATE REFERRALS FOR HELP.
   3.  IN  A NATIONAL SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE JASON FOUNDATION, A TEACHER
 WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE NUMBER ONE PERSON TO WHOM A STUDENT WOULD TURN  TO
 HELP  A FRIEND WHO MIGHT BE SUICIDAL. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WHEN A YOUNG

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05374-01-3
              

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