Bill Text: NY A06181 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a peer to peer mentoring program regarding drug use in elementary and secondary schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A06181 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06181-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6181

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        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 60 to read as follows:
     3    60. The  commissioner  shall  require  all  elementary  and  secondary
     4  schools to create peer to peer mentoring programs relating to the impli-
     5  cations  of drug abuse. Resources, information and counseling related to
     6  drug and substance use must be provided to  the  mentoring  programs  by
     7  each  school. Such resources, information and counseling may be provided
     8  by outside organizations and  must  be  age-appropriate  for  school-age
     9  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.
                                                                   LBD10497-01-3