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S10369 • 2025

Relates to interpersonal violence prevention classes in secondary high schools

Relates to interpersonal violence prevention classes in secondary high schools

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Sponsor
Steve Rhoads
Last action
2026-05-15
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Relates to interpersonal violence prevention classes in secondary high schools

Relates to interpersonal violence prevention classes in secondary high schools Requires all secondary high schools to include the legal and social consequences of disseminating sexually explicit messages, imagery or video and cyberbullying in interpersonal violence prevention education in health classes.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to interpersonal violence prevention classes in secondary high schools Requires all secondary high schools to include the legal and social consequences of disseminating sexually explicit messages, imagery or video and cyberbullying in interpersonal violence prevention education in health classes.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-15 Senate

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Official Summary Text

Relates to interpersonal violence prevention classes in secondary high schools
Requires all secondary high schools to include the legal and social consequences of disseminating sexually explicit messages, imagery or video and cyberbullying in interpersonal violence prevention education in health classes.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10369

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing  for  health
          education  pertaining  to  certain  interpersonal  violence prevention
          education for secondary high school students

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  The  section  heading and paragraph b of subdivision 6 of
     2  section 804 of the education law, as amended by chapter 390 of the  laws
     3  of 2016, are amended to read as follows:
     4    Health  education  regarding  mental  health,  alcohol, drugs, tobacco
     5  abuse [and], the  prevention  and  detection  of  certain  cancers,  AND
     6  CERTAIN VIOLENCE PREVENTION.
     7    b. (I) The commissioner shall make available an interpersonal violence
     8  prevention  education  package  for  grades kindergarten through twelve,
     9  which package may consist of student pamphlets, parent pamphlets,  vide-
    10  otapes  and  other  informative  materials  to  be distributed to school
    11  districts, and shall encourage the use of such material as part  of  the
    12  health  or  other related curricula or programs, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
    13  INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION EDUCATION IS REQUIRED FOR  ALL  HEALTH
    14  EDUCATION  COURSES  AT  THE  SECONDARY  HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL IN ORDER FOR A
    15  STUDENT TO GRADUATE.
    16    (II) WITHIN THE INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE  PREVENTION  EDUCATION  PACKAGE
    17  FOR  ALL SECONDARY HIGH SCHOOLS, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE INSTRUC-
    18  TION REGARDING CERTAIN VIOLENCE PREVENTION, INCLUDING, BUT  NOT  LIMITED
    19  TO, THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF DISSEMINATING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT
    20  MESSAGES,  IMAGERY  OR VIDEO AND CYBERBULLYING AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
    21  EIGHT OF SECTION ELEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER. INSTRUCTION SHALL ALSO  INCLUDE
    22  THE  EDUCATION  REFORM  PROGRAM  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION FOUR
    23  HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT-L OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13505-01-5