Bill Text: NY A00302 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires courses of study in private schools in the prevention of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse for pupils in grades K-8.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A00302 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00302-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           302

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the teaching
          of courses in the prevention of child abuse at private schools

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 803-b of the education law, as
     2  added by chapter 187 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. All pupils in grades K-8 in all public and private schools  in  the
     4  state shall receive instruction designed to prevent child sexual exploi-
     5  tation  and  child  sexual  abuse.  Such program shall be defined by the
     6  commissioner in regulations after consultation with  the  department  of
     7  health and be designed to educate students, parents and school personnel
     8  about the prevention of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse
     9  in  grades  kindergarten  through eight. Such program shall include, but
    10  not be limited to students and parents. Nothing in  this  section  shall
    11  prevent the department from making model curriculum and resource materi-
    12  als available on the department's website.
    13    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    14  the date on which it shall have become a law.




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