Bill Text: NJ S3788 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain student identification cards to contain telephone number and text line for 2NDFLOOR? Youth Helpline.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-20 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S3788 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S3788-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 3788

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 20, 2019

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  VIN GOPAL

District 11 (Monmouth)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires certain student identification cards to contain telephone number and text line for 2NDFLOOR® Youth Helpline.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 

An Act concerning information on student identification cards and supplementing chapter 6 and chapter 3B of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    A school district that includes any of the grades seven through 12 and that issues student identification cards shall have printed on the back of the student identification cards the telephone number and text line for the 2NDFLOOR® Youth Helpline.

 

     2.    An institution of higher education that issues student identification cards shall have printed on the back of the student identification cards the telephone number and text line for the 2NDFLOOR® Youth Helpline.

 

     3.    Section 1 of this act shall take effect in the first full school year following the date of enactment, and section 2 of this act shall take effect in the first full academic year following the date of enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires a school district that includes any of the grades seven through 12 and that issues student identification cards to have the telephone number and text line for the 2NDFLOOR® Youth Helpline printed on the back of the student identification cards.  The bill also requires an institution of higher education that issues student identification cards to have the telephone number and text line for the 2NDFLOOR® Youth Helpline printed on the back of the cards.

     The 2NDFLOOR® Youth Helpline is a Statewide confidential and anonymous phone and text helpline which is available 24 hours, 7 days a week to New Jersey youth and young adults.  The helpline is free of charge and assists youth and young adults with their day-to-day concerns and any problems they may be facing.  Professional staff and trained volunteers provide callers with non-judgmental and caring responses which can ease the caller's frustrations and worries and encourage them to make decisions that promote their safety and well-being.