Bill Text: NY S05350 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires training for teachers, administrators and instructors in the area of mental health response; requires office of mental health to assist in development of curriculum for training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-10-07 - PRINT NUMBER 5350A [S05350 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05350-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5350--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 2, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
          to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law  and  the mental hygiene law, in
          relation  to  requiring  training  for  teachers,  administrators  and
          instructors in the area of mental health response training

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 3004 of the education law is amended by adding  two
     2  new subdivisions 7 and 8 to read as follows:
     3    7. No later than twelve months after the effective date of this subdi-
     4  vision,  the  commissioner,  in  conjunction  with  the office of mental
     5  health, shall require the  training  of  teachers,  administrators,  and
     6  instructors  in the area of mental health response training. Such mental
     7  health response training shall include instruction in:
     8    a. the recognition of the signs and symptoms of present or  developing
     9  mental health crises or illnesses;
    10    b.  the  awareness of and appropriate response to mental health crises
    11  including but not limited to attempted suicide or suicidal ideation, the
    12  threat or practice of self-harm or harm to others, substance use  disor-
    13  ders,  depression,  anxiety  and  panic attacks, and other mental health
    14  crises or illnesses, in keeping with standards promulgated by the Ameri-
    15  can Academy of Mental Health and as determined by the commissioner;
    16    c. identifying and sharing information, as determined by  the  commis-
    17  sioner  but  which  shall  include  but  not be limited to, about mental
    18  health professionals, services and resources, the role of  familial  and
    19  social  supports for the prevention, treatment, and recovery from mental
    20  illness, and the importance of diet, nutrition,  exercise,  and  regular

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  socialization  in  the  management  of  stress,  anxiety, depression and
     2  addiction or other such mental health crises and illnesses.
     3    8.  Mental  health response training shall not include training in the
     4  diagnosis, treatment, or counseling of students, peers,  or  members  of
     5  the  community.    Nothing  in  this  section shall be deemed to allow a
     6  person to provide any service for which a license, registration, certif-
     7  ication or other authorization under title eight of the education law is
     8  required and which the person does not possess.    The  commissioner  is
     9  authorized  to  promulgate  rules and regulations necessary to establish
    10  such training pursuant to this section.
    11    § 2. Section 7.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new
    12  subdivision (i) to read as follows:
    13    (i) The office of mental health shall advise and  assist  the  commis-
    14  sioner  of  education  in developing a training curriculum for teachers,
    15  administrators, and instructors in the area of  mental  health  response
    16  training  as  described  in section three thousand four of the education
    17  law.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.