Bill Text: NY A03754 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations authorizing school curriculums to include programs designed to educate students on the immediate and consequential dangers associated with the use of alcohol.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A03754 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03754-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3754 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to instruction relating to the dangers associated with the use of alcohol The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 804-e 2 to read as follows: 3 § 804-e. Dangers associated with the use of alcohol. 1. In addition to 4 instruction otherwise required by section eight hundred four of this 5 article, the commissioner is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and 6 regulations directing all schools to include, as an integral part of the 7 school curriculum, programs designed to educate students about the imme- 8 diate and consequential dangers associated with the use of alcohol. Such 9 programs shall include, but not be limited to, the dangers of drinking 10 and driving as well as such other issues closely related to the use of 11 alcohol. 12 2. The programs authorized by subdivision one of this section shall be 13 designed by the department in conjunction with the office of alcoholism 14 and substance abuse services. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 16 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. LBD07765-01-9