Bill Text: NJ S2367 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidence for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.*
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-06-11 - Assembly Floor Amendment Passed (Jasey) [S2367 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-S2367-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator RICHARD J. CODEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Senator DIANE B. ALLEN
District 7 (Burlington)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Vitale and Lesniak
SYNOPSIS
Requires the review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure that substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates the most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning substance abuse instruction for public school students and supplementing P.L.1987, c.389 (C.18A:40A-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The State Board of Education, in consultation with the Division of Addiction Services in the Department of Human Services, shall review the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education to ensure that substance abuse instruction incorporates the most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
b. Within 120 days of the effective date of this act, the State board shall issue a written report regarding the review required pursuant to subsection a. of this section to the Governor, and to the Legislature as provided under section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1). The report shall include: the methodology used by the State board in its review; the strengths and weaknesses of the Core Curriculum Content Standards on substance abuse; and an analysis of the extent to which the Core Curriculum Content Standards on substance abuse incorporate the most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that the State Board of Education conduct a review of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education to ensure that substance abuse instruction incorporates the most recent evidence-based standards and practices. The State board will issue a report on the review within 120 days of the effective date of the bill. The report will include: the methodology used by the State board in its review; the strengths and weaknesses of the Core Curriculum Content Standards on substance abuse; and an analysis of the extent to which the Core Curriculum Content Standards on substance abuse incorporate the most recent evidence-based standards and practices.