New York S 6901: Relates to implementing a moratorium on digital billboards and directing the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study on the impact of digital billboards on motor vehicle accidents

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
S06901 Summary:

BILL NOS06901A

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS A07496-A

&nbsp

SPONSORSALAZAR

&nbsp

COSPNSRBOTTCHER, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU,
 MAY, MYRIE, RAMOS, RIVERA, SERRANO

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Add §804-e, Ed L

&nbsp

Establishes the healthy and safe students act; requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards.

Go to top S06901 Actions:

BILL NOS06901A

&nbsp

03/26/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

05/05/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION

05/05/2025PRINT NUMBER 6901A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Go to topS06901 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topS06901 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topS06901 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6901--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 26, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. SALAZAR, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, GIANARIS, GONZA-
 LEZ, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MYRIE,
 RAMOS, RIVERA, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the heal-
 thy and safe students act

 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 "healthy and safe students act".
 3 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 804-e to
 4 read as follows:
 5 § 804-e. Healthy and safe students. 1. Each public and charter school
 6 shall ensure all pupils receive, as an integral part of education in
 7 grades kindergarten through twelve, comprehensive sexuality education.
 8 2. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of health,
 9 shall develop and establish a comprehensive sexuality education program.
 10 Such program of instruction shall include: (i) model curricula for
 11 comprehensive sexuality education in grades kindergarten through twelve
 12 including exemplar lesson plans, instructional tools and materials, and
 13 best practice instructional resources that are suitable to student age,
 14 based on cognitive, emotional, and behavioral capacity and at a minimum
 15 conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education stand-
 16 ards; (ii) resources to support implementation of the instruction in the
 17 schools; and (iii) public availability of all program materials related
 18 to comprehensive sexuality education on the department's website.
 19 3. In the development of such program, the commissioners shall seek
 20 the recommendations of a broad range of experts such as teachers certi-
 21 fied in health, biology, family and consumer science, early childhood

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11299-04-5

 S. 6901--A 2

 1 education, and childhood education, certified and licensed social work-
 2 ers, school nurses, school administrators, school board members, parent
 3 teacher association members, others with educational expertise in inti-
 4 mate partner violence, sexual assault, reproductive and sexual health
 5 care, and serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning
 6 youth. Such program of comprehensive sexuality instruction shall be
 7 reviewed periodically by the commissioner in consultation with the
 8 commissioner of health, at intervals specified by the commissioner, and
 9 updated as necessary.
 10 4. The commissioner shall prescribe in regulations such contents and
 11 topics to be included in a curriculum of comprehensive sexuality
 12 instruction; provided, however, that the curricula need not be uniform
 13 throughout the state; and provided further, however, that school
 14 districts shall utilize either a curriculum for comprehensive sexuality
 15 education instruction prescribed by the commissioner or a curriculum in
 16 accordance with t