Bill Text: NY A10342 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes guidelines for school administrators to contact the parents of students who are bullied, harassed, intimidated or assaulted by another student.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-23 - referred to education [A10342 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10342-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10342
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 23, 2012
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. TEDISCO, RAIA, TITONE, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Spon-
         sored by -- M. of A.  CALHOUN, J. MILLER -- read once and referred  to
         the Committee on Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to establishing guide-
         lines for school administrators to contact the parents of students who
         are bullied, harassed, intimidated or assaulted by another student
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph b of subdivision 2 and subdivision 3 of section
    2  13 of the education law, as added by chapter 482 of the  laws  of  2010,
    3  are amended and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
    4    b.  to  enable  employees  to prevent and respond to discrimination or
    5  harassment; [and]
    6    3.  Guidelines  relating  to  the  development  of   nondiscriminatory
    7  instructional  and  counseling  methods, and requiring that at least one
    8  staff member at every school  be  thoroughly  trained  to  handle  human
    9  relations  in  the areas of race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic
   10  group, religion, religious  practice,  disability,  sexual  orientation,
   11  gender, and sex[.]; AND
   12    4.  GUIDELINES  REQUIRING  SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS TO MAKE AN HONEST AND
   13  RESPONSIBLE ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THE PARENTS OF A  STUDENT  WHO  IS  BEING
   14  BULLIED, HARASSED, INTIMIDATED OR ASSAULTED BY ANOTHER STUDENT WHEN SUCH
   15  BULLIED,  HARASSED, INTIMIDATED OR ASSAULTED STUDENT REQUESTS ASSISTANCE
   16  FROM THE SCHOOL.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
   18  manner as section 2 of chapter 482 of the laws of 2010, takes effect.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15947-01-2