Bill Text: NY A10018 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "Alyssa's law"; authorizes school boards to include information regarding the installation of a panic alarm system in any school in the district in the district-wide safety plan; defines "panic alarm system".

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - substituted by s7132b [A10018 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10018-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10018

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2022
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  authorizing  school
          boards  to  include  information regarding the installation of a panic
          alarm system in any school in the district in the district-wide safety
          plan

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Alyssa's Law".
     3    § 2. Paragraph f of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of  the  education
     4  law,  as  amended  by  section  1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of
     5  2016, is amended to read as follows:
     6    f. policies and  procedures  relating  to  school  building  security,
     7  including  where  appropriate  the  use of school safety officers and/or
     8  security devices or procedures. District-wide school safety teams  shall
     9  consider,  as  part  of  its  reviews of the comprehensive district-wide
    10  safety plan, the installation of a panic alarm system. For  purposes  of
    11  this paragraph, "panic alarm system" shall mean a silent security system
    12  signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal
    13  a  life-threatening  or  emergency  situation  requiring a response from
    14  local law enforcement or, in the case of a school building located in  a
    15  municipality  in  which  there  is  no  municipal  police  department, a
    16  location designated by  the  superintendent  of  state  police  and  may
    17  include  one  or  more  of the following: wired panic button or buttons,
    18  wireless panic button or buttons or a mobile or computer application;
    19    § 3. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section 2801-a of  the  education
    20  law,  as  amended  by  section  1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of
    21  2016, is amended to read as follows:
    22    d. establishment of internal and  external  communication  systems  in
    23  emergencies which may include the installation of a panic alarm system;
    24    §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately.  Effective immediately,
    25  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
    26  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
    27  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11301-05-2