Bill Text: NJ S372 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidance for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-30 - Substituted by A2292 [S372 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S372-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator RICHARD J. CODEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Senator DIANE B. ALLEN
District 7 (Burlington)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senators Vitale, Lesniak, Addiego, Greenstein and Gordon
SYNOPSIS
Requires review of Core Curriculum Content Standards to ensure guidance for substance abuse instruction provided to public school students incorporates most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
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 Department 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 guidance for substance abuse instruction incorporates the most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
b. Within 120 days of the effective date of this act, the department shall issue a written report to the Governor, to the State Board of Education, and to the Legislature as provided under section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), with its determination on whether the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education adequately incorporate the most recent evidence-based standards and practices pursuant to subsection a. of this section. If the department determines that the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education need to be revised, it shall propose the revisions to the State board within 12 months of the report's submission.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that the Department of Education conduct a review of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education to ensure that guidance for substance abuse instruction incorporates the most recent evidence-based standards and practices.
The department will issue a report on the review within 120 days of the effective date of the bill. The report will include the department's determination on whether the Core Curriculum Content Standards in comprehensive Health and Physical Education adequately incorporate the most recent evidence-based standards and practices. If the department determines that the standards need to be revised, it must propose the revisions to the State Board of Education within 12 months of the report's submission.
