Bill Text: NY A03210 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials for educators regarding suicide prevention.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - signed chap.462 [A03210 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03210-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3210--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, ABINANTI, WEPRIN, JENNE, JAFFEE, SKOUFIS, STIRPE, O'DONNELL, GALEF, BLAKE, McDONALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Mental Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to require the office of mental health to develop educational materials for educators regarding suicide prevention The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The commissioner of the office of mental health, in consul- 2 tation with the commissioner of the department of education, shall 3 provide and publish, in electronic or other format, educational materi- 4 als for any New York state university or community college, or a city 5 university, regarding suicide prevention measures and signs of 6 depression among students attending such university or community 7 college, or a city university. Such educational materials shall include, 8 but not be limited to, information regarding symptoms of depression, how 9 depression manifests itself in different cultures, warning signs of 10 suicide, actions to take once a student is identified as at risk of 11 suicide, and a list of educational websites regarding suicide and 12 students attending a university or college. Such educational materials 13 shall be made available to the faculty and staff or any New York state 14 university or community college, or a city university, through the offi- 15 cial website of the office of mental health and by any other means 16 deemed appropriate by the commissioner of the office of mental health 17 within ninety days of the effective date of this act. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08209-02-8