Bill Text: NY S01865 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Requires student identification cards to contain the new national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-4)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6563A [S01865 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01865-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Requires student identification cards to contain the new national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-4)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6563A [S01865 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01865-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1865 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BROUK, CLEARE, GOUNARDES, MANNION, MYRIE, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring student identification cards to contain the new national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "student lifeline act". 3 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 207-b to 4 read as follows: 5 § 207-b. Student identification cards. 1. Each institution of higher 6 education authorized by the legislature or by the regents of the univer- 7 sity of the state of New York to confer academic degrees in this state 8 which issues student identification cards to its students shall have on 9 such cards the national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8. 10 2. Each year, prior to the start of a new school year, each institu- 11 tion of higher education authorized by the legislature or by the regents 12 of the university of the state of New York to confer academic degrees in 13 this state which issues student identification cards to its students 14 shall certify to the regents that such identification cards have the 15 information required under subdivision one of this section. 16 § 3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 1527-b to 17 read as follows: 18 § 1527-b. Student identification cards. 1. Each school district, 19 private school, or charter school organized under this chapter which 20 issues student identification cards to its students shall have on such 21 cards issued to students in the ninth through twelfth grades the 22 national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04558-01-3S. 1865 2 1 2. Each year, prior to the start of a new school year, each school 2 district, private school, or charter school organized under this chapter 3 which issues student identification cards to its students shall certify 4 to the regents that such identification cards have the information 5 required under subdivision one of this section. 6 § 4. This act shall take effect July 16, 2023 and shall apply to 7 student identification cards that are issued, modified, altered or 8 amended on or after such date.