Bill Text: NY A06503 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6503

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires schools report certain threats and acts of violence to the federal bureau of investigation, the state police, and the office of mental health.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A06503 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06503-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6503

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STERN, K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  schools
          report  certain  threats and acts of violence to the federal bureau of
          investigations, the state police, and the office of mental health

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs  a and b of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of
     2  the education law, as amended by chapter 525 of the laws  of  2019,  are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    a. policies and procedures for responding to implied or direct threats
     5  of  violence by students, teachers, other school personnel including bus
     6  drivers and monitors, as well  as  visitors  to  the  school,  including
     7  threats  by  students against themselves, which for the purposes of this
     8  section shall include suicide, including, but not limited to,  reporting
     9  such  implied  or  direct  threats  of violence to the federal bureau of
    10  investigations, the state police, and the office of mental health;
    11    b. policies and procedures for  responding  to  acts  of  violence  by
    12  students,  teachers,  other  school  personnel including bus drivers and
    13  monitors, as well as visitors to the school, including consideration  of
    14  zero-tolerance  policies for school violence, including, but not limited
    15  to, reporting such acts of violence to the federal  bureau  of  investi-
    16  gations, the state police, and the office of mental health;
    17    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    18  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    19  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    20  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    21  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.
                                                                   LBD07599-01-3