Bill Text: NY A02961 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2961 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the creation of a peer to peer mentoring program regarding drug use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A02961 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02961-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2961
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the creation of a peer
          to peer mentoring program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 56 to read as follows:
     3    56. The commissioner is authorized and directed to require all elemen-
     4  tary and secondary schools to create peer  to  peer  mentoring  programs
     5  relating  to  the implications of drug abuse. Resources, information and
     6  counseling related to drug and substance use must  be  provided  to  the
     7  mentoring programs by each school. Such resources, information and coun-
     8  seling  may  be provided by outside organizations and must be age-appro-
     9  priate for school-age children.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07724-01-7