New York A 8339: Requires the state education department to develop a model mental health training program to serve as the mental health component of required school safety trainings

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A08339 Summary:

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Requires the state education department to develop a model mental health training program to serve as the mental health component of required school safety trainings as part of comprehensive district-wide safety plans developed by each district-wide school safety team.

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05/13/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8339

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the state
 education department to develop a model mental health training program
 to serve as the mental health component of required school safety
 trainings

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the
 2 education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the
 3 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
 4 h. (i) policies and procedures for annual school safety training for
 5 staff and students; provided that the district must certify to the
 6 commissioner that all staff have undergone annual training on the emer-
 7 gency response plan, and that the school safety training include compo-
 8 nents on violence prevention and mental health, such training may be
 9 implemented and conducted in conjunction with existing professional
 10 development and training; provided however that new employees hired
 11 after the start of the school year shall receive training within thirty
 12 days of such hire or as part of a district's existing new hire training
 13 program, whichever is sooner;
 14 (ii) (1) the department shall develop a model mental health training
 15 program to be provided either annually or as a comprehensive program
 16 biennially with an internet-based refresher course on the off-years, for
 17 all teachers, assistants, aides, substitutes, coaches, nurses, princi-
 18 pals, assistant principals, district superintendents, counselors, admin-
 19 istrators, technology staff, bus drivers, clerical workers, security
 20 staff, custodians, food service, maintenance and other non-instructional
 21 staff which shall include at a minimum, recognition of the warning signs
 22 of mental health problems, balancing being a trusted adult providing a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11498-01-5

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 1 safe space to learn with being a mandated reporter, whom to turn to for
 2 assistance, and how to access appropriate services;
 3 (2) every district-wide school safety team shall adopt the model
 4 mental health training program produced pursuant to this subparagraph or
 5 a program which has been certified by the department as exceeding the
 6 requirements of such model program to serve as the mental health compo-
 7 nent of the school safety training as described in subparagraph (i) of
 8 this paragraph;
 9 (3) the department may modify the model mental health training program
 10 produced pursuant to this subparagraph as it identifies additional
 11 information and topics to be addressed as needed;
 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 13 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 14 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 15 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 16 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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