Bill Text: NY A00335 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes policies and procedures for responding to students having mental health crises in a manner that does not include contacting law enforcement unless implied or direct threats of violence or other criminal activity is involved in school safety plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to education [A00335 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00335-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           335

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. JACKSON, DE LOS SANTOS, SIMON -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including policies and
          procedures for responding to students having mental health  crises  in
          school safety plans

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs l and m of subdivision 2 of  section  2801-a  of
     2  the  education  law,  as  amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 2021, are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    l. the designation of the superintendent, or  superintendent's  desig-
     5  nee,  as the district chief emergency officer responsible for coordinat-
     6  ing communication between school staff and  law  enforcement  and  first
     7  responders, and ensuring staff understanding of the district-level safe-
     8  ty  plan.  The  chief  emergency  officer  shall also be responsible for
     9  ensuring the completion and yearly updating of building-level  emergency
    10  response plans; [and]
    11    m.  protocols  for  responding  to a declared state disaster emergency
    12  involving a communicable disease that are substantially consistent  with
    13  the provisions of section twenty-seven-c of the labor law; and
    14    n.  polices  and  procedures  for responding to students having mental
    15  health crises in a manner that does not include contacting law  enforce-
    16  ment  unless  implied  or  direct  threats of violence or other criminal
    17  activity is involved.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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