Bill Text: NY A09492 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes both public and nonpublic schools to hire school resource officers to provide improved public safety and/or security on school grounds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-14 - referred to education [A09492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09492-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9492

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 14, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing public and
          nonpublic schools hire school resource officers

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2801-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 2801-c. New York state  school  resource  officer  program.  1.  For
     4  purposes  of this section, the term "school resource officer" shall mean
     5  a school resource officer, school safety officer, school security  offi-
     6  cer, or any other substantially similar position or office whose purpose
     7  is to provide improved public safety and/or security on school grounds.
     8    2.  Any  boards  of  cooperative  educational  services, and public or
     9  nonpublic school districts which are not in a city school district in  a
    10  city  having a population of one million or more shall be authorized, to
    11  hire school resource officers, or contract with  the  state,  a  county,
    12  city,  town  or  village  for such services; and to define the principal
    13  role of a school resource officer as providing  improved  public  safety
    14  and/or security on school grounds through community policing techniques,
    15  investigative measures, and tactical preparedness, and further delineate
    16  additional roles of a school resource officer.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14583-01-4