Amendment ID: S2572-16

Amendment 16

Mental Health Crisis Number on Student IDs

Ms. Comerford, Messrs. Feeney and Tarr, Ms. Gobi, Ms. Rausch, Messrs. Timilty, Gomez and O'Connor move that the proposed new draft be amended by inserting at the end the following 3 sections:-

“SECTION X. Chapter 71 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 37S the following section:-

Section 37T. A public school, including a charter school, that serves students in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, that issues student identification cards shall include on the student identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, and the school’s campus police or security telephone number or, if the school does not have a campus police or security telephone number, the local nonemergency telephone number. This section shall apply to a student identification card issued to a new student and to a student identification card issued to replace a student’s damaged or lost student identification card at the request of that student.

SECTION X. Chapter 73 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 20 the following section:-

Section 21. A public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards shall include on the student identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, and the school’s campus police or security telephone number or, if the school does not have a campus police or security telephone number, the local nonemergency telephone number. This section shall apply to a student identification card issued to a new student and to a student identification card issued to replace a student’s damaged or lost student identification card at the request of that student.

SECTION X. Section 37T of chapter 71 of the General Laws and section 21 of chapter 73 of the General Laws shall take effect on August 1, 2022.  As of that date, a school subject to said section 37T or a state university or community college subject to said section 21 that has a supply of unissued student identification cards that do not comply with the requirement of said sections may issue those non-compliant student identification cards to students until that supply is depleted.”.