STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MONTESANO,  GIGLIO, LAWRENCE, PALUMBO, KOLB,
          DiPIETRO, NORRIS, BRABENEC, MIKULIN -- read once and referred  to  the
          Committee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to grants and reimbursements to
          public  and  nonpublic  schools for the costs related to the hiring of
          school resource officers or  for  costs  related  to  the  Drug  Abuse
          Resistance Education program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 186-f of the tax law,  is  amended
     2  by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
     3    (h)  Up  to the sum of thirty million dollars annually may be used for
     4  the provision of  grants  or  reimbursements  to  public  and  nonpublic
     5  schools  for the costs related to the hiring of school resource officers
     6  or for costs related to the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program,  to
     7  be distributed pursuant to standards and guidelines issued by the state.
     8  For the purposes of this section, nonprofit school shall mean a non-pro-
     9  fit  school  in  the  state,  other than a public school, which provides
    10  instruction in accordance with section thirty-two hundred  four  of  the
    11  education law.
    12    § 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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