Bill Text: NY A04053 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for intervention by certain campus security personnel in relation to reportedly mentally ill students and notification to person to be contacted in case of such mental health emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-07 - held for consideration in higher education [A04053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04053-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4053
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 30, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to safe school or college
         campuses
         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 6435-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  6435-A.  SAFE  CAMPUS  INTERVENTION.  1.  IF A PERSON ALLEGED TO BE
    4  MENTALLY ILL IS A STUDENT RESIDING, OR IN ATTENDANCE,  AT  A  SCHOOL  OR
    5  COLLEGE AT THE TIME THAT SUCH PERSON IS OBSERVED EXHIBITING SAID MENTAL-
    6  LY  ILL  BEHAVIOR, ANY TEACHER, ADMINISTRATOR OR STUDENT MAY REPORT SUCH
    7  BEHAVIOR TO THE CHIEF OF SAFETY AND SECURITY, OR OTHER OFFICER RESPONSI-
    8  BLE FOR CAMPUS SAFETY AND SECURITY OR A DESIGNEE, AND SUCH PERSONNEL MAY
    9  EXERCISE THE AUTHORIZED POWERS  GIVEN  TO  PEACE  OFFICERS  PURSUANT  TO
   10  SECTION  9.41 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW. IN SUCH INSTANCES, THE INSTITU-
   11  TION SHALL, UPON REMOVAL OF SAID STUDENT ALLEGED  TO  BE  MENTALLY  ILL,
   12  IMMEDIATELY  NOTIFY  THE  APPROPRIATE  PERSON OR PERSONS SO LISTED TO BE
   13  NOTIFIED IN CASE OF EMERGENCY INVOLVING ALLEGED  MENTAL  HEALTH  ILLNESS
   14  INTERVENTION  OR  TREATMENT  ON  THE  STUDENT'S ADMISSION APPLICATION OR
   15  STUDENT RECORDS.
   16    2. ALL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES SHALL INFORM AND ADVISE  ALL  STUDENTS  OF
   17  THIS  PROVISION OF LAW AT THE TIME OF ACCEPTANCE AND ENTRY TO THE INSTI-
   18  TUTION.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00087-01-3
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