Bill Text: NY A04917 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides funding for school anti-violence education programs through the omnibus school violence prevention grant program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-06-05 - substituted by s4598d [A04917 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04917-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4917--C

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ANDERSON, SOLAGES, ZINERMAN, GIBBS, CUNNINGHAM,
          JACKSON, MEEKS, DE LOS SANTOS, SHIMSKY, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  SIMON,  RAGA,
          SIMONE,  ARDILA,  CHANDLER-WATERMAN,  ZACCARO, ROZIC, HEVESI, EPSTEIN,
          COOK, DAVILA, TAPIA, JEAN-PIERRE, TAYLOR, BURDICK, RAMOS, K. BROWN  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to
          the  Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
          tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
          said  committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  funding  for  school
          anti-violence education programs

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

     1    Section 1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 2814 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by chapter 529 of the laws of 2023, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a. School safety activities. Programs eligible for funding pursuant to
     5  this  section  may  include,  but  not be limited to: (i) safe corridors
     6  programs; (ii) diversity programs;  (iii)  collaborative  school  safety
     7  programs with law enforcement agencies or community-based organizations;
     8  (iv)  metal  detectors,  intercom  and  other intra-school communication
     9  devices and other devices to increase school security and the safety  of
    10  school personnel and students; (v) programs which facilitate and promote
    11  community  involvement  in  school  facility planning; [and] (vi) school
    12  anti-violence education programs; and  (vii)  other  programs  including
    13  comprehensive  school-based intervention models, approved by the commis-
    14  sioner, that reduce violence and improve  school  safety.  Comprehensive
    15  school  based  intervention models shall coordinate with and collaborate
    16  with other services currently being provided  in  the  school  district,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  incorporate  appropriate  school  violence  prevention  and intervention
     2  services, and coordinate appropriate funding sources to ensure the effi-
     3  cient delivery of services. Such comprehensive school-based intervention
     4  models  shall  also  include provisions for the involvement of teachers,
     5  parents, school administrators in the development and implementation  of
     6  the  program,  a  detailed  statement  identifying  specific performance
     7  goals, a proposed timetable for implementation and achievement  of  such
     8  goals  and  specific  assessment  methods  which will be used to measure
     9  student and school progress.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    11  manner as chapter 529 of the laws of 2023, takes effect.