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Requiring that secondary and postsecondary education institutions provide students with information regarding suicide prevention and student mental health services and including applicability provisions
Topics:K–12 educationHealth careHigher educationMental health & addiction
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 21, 2019
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires that public and accredited nonpublic schools that educate students in grades through 12, regents institutions, community colleges, and other postsecondary institutions whose students are eligible for or who receive financial assistance under programs administered by the college student aid commission to include on either side of identification cards issued to students the telephone number for the national suicide prevention lifeline. The telephone numbers for the crisis text line and a local suicide prevention hotline may also be included.
Read the full explanation
The bill requires such schools, institutions, and community colleges to post the telephone number for the national suicide prevention lifeline on the schools’, institutions’, or community colleges’ internet sites. The bill also requires such schools, institutions, and community colleges to provide students information at least twice per school or academic year on how to access available student mental health services in the institution, in the community, or both, as applicable. The bill applies to student identification cards issued on or after the effective date of the bill. A school, institution, or community college that has a supply of unused student identification cards shall utilize that supply prior to complying with the requirements of the bill relating to student identification cards.
House subcommittee
Named February 21, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part