{"id":315787,"date":"2026-10-28T03:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315787\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:10:06","slug":"sen-haywood-rep-nelson-appear-on-good-day-philadelphia-to-discuss-new-anti-lazing-law-host-press-conference-at-cheltenham-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315787\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Haywood, Rep. Nelson appear on &#8216;Good Day Philadelphia&#8217; to discuss new anti-lazing law, host press conference at Cheltenham High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Art Haywood, whose office is in Abington, and Representative Napoleon Nelson, who represents Cheltenham Township, Elkins Park and Jenkintown Borough, appeared in a segment of \u201cGood Day Philadelphia\u201d to discuss Haywood\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/sen-haywoods-bill-to-add-hazing-to-state-mandatory-reporting-guidelines-has-been-passed-cheltenham-high-school-to-host-press-conference-on-oct-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">recently passed anti-hazing legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new law, <a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/sen-haywood-proposes-bill-to-add-hazing-to-state-mandatory-reporting-guidelines-following-cheltenham-high-school-football-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">first announced in September<\/a> as a response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/cheltenham-high-school-football-season-cancelled-following-investigation-of-hazing-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hazing and abuse of a Cheltenham High School student<\/a>, makes hazing a mandated reportable offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis law will require disclosure,\u201d Haywood said in the segment. \u201cHopefully we\u2019ll have quicker action to deal with the challenges that young people are facing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haywood said he and Nelson became involved after Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele reached out to them to introduce legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFortunately, we had tremendous bipartisan support,\u201d Haywood said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clip is below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A press conference was held at 3:00pm today outside of Cheltenham High School to announce the passage. That footage is below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all the latest news, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/glensidelocal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or sign up for Glenside Local\u2019s \u201cDaily Buzz\u201d newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Screengrab: Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senator Art Haywood, whose office is in Abington, and Representative Napoleon Nelson, who represents Cheltenham Township, Elkins Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-315787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}