Bill Text: NJ A3224 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain additional school district personnel to complete training program on suicide prevention.*

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-23 - Assembly Substitution (Singleton) [A3224 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3224-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3224

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 22, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblywoman  PAMELA R. LAMPITT

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

Assemblywoman  ELIANA PINTOR MARIN

District 29 (Essex)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Wilson, Assemblywoman Riley and Assemblyman Wimberly

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires annual suicide prevention instruction for public school teaching staff members as part of professional development requirement.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Education Committee on October 27, 2014, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning annual suicide prevention instruction for public school teaching staff members and amending P.L.2005, c.310.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    

     1.    Section 2 of P.L.2005, c.310 (C.18A:6-112) is amended to read as follows:

     2.    The State Board of Education, in consultation with the New Jersey Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council established in the Department of Children and Families pursuant to P.L.2003, c.214 (C.30:9A-22 et seq.), shall ¹[, as part of the professional development requirement established by the State board for public school teaching staff members,]¹ require each public school teaching staff member to ¹annually¹ complete ¹[at least two hours of]¹ instruction in suicide prevention ¹[, to be provided by a licensed health care professional with training and experience in mental health issues, in each year of the professional development period] .  Two hours of the instruction shall be completed over a five-year period as part of the professional development requirement established by the State board for public school teaching staff members, and shall be provided by a licensed health care professional with training and experience in mental health issues.  In addition to the professional development requirement, a teaching staff member shall receive instruction in suicide prevention in conjunction with other training required for teaching staff members pursuant to law or regulation including, but not limited to, training required pursuant to the provisions of the "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act," P.L.2002, c.83 (C.18A:37-13.1 et al.)¹ .

     The instruction in suicide prevention shall include information on the relationship between the risk of suicide and incidents of harassment, intimidation, and bullying and information on reducing the risk of suicide in students who are members of communities identified as having members at high risk of suicide.

(cf: P.L.2010, c.122, s.4)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.