Bill Text: NY A09676 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes active shooter drills in public and private educational institutions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-03 - referred to education [A09676 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09676-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9676

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to establishing active
          shooter drills at public and private educational institutions

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  807 of the education law, as
     2  amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 54 of the  laws  of  2016,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in charge of
     5  every public or private school or  educational  institution  within  the
     6  state,  other  than  colleges or universities, to instruct and train the
     7  pupils by means of drills, so that they may in  a  sudden  emergency  be
     8  able  to respond appropriately in the shortest possible time and without
     9  confusion or panic. Such drills shall be held at least twelve  times  in
    10  each  school  year, eight of which required drills shall be held between
    11  September first and December thirty-first of each such  year.  Eight  of
    12  all  such  drills  shall  be  evacuation  drills, four of which shall be
    13  through use of the fire escapes on  buildings  where  fire  escapes  are
    14  provided  or  through  the  use of identified secondary means of egress.
    15  Four of all such required drills shall be emergency attack drills,  with
    16  two  of  such drills being lock-down drills and two of such drills being
    17  active shooter drills. Upon request of the principal or other person  in
    18  charge  of  such public or private educational institution, the New York
    19  state school safety improvement teams, established pursuant  to  section
    20  twenty-eight  hundred  one-b  of this chapter, shall provide recommenda-
    21  tions on how to perform such lock-down and active shooter drills at such
    22  public or private educational institution.  Drills shall be conducted at
    23  different times of the school day. Pupils shall  be  instructed  in  the
    24  procedure  to  be  followed  in  the event that a fire occurs during the
    25  lunch  period  or  assembly,  provided  however,  that  such  additional
    26  instruction  may  be  waived  where  a  drill is held during the regular
    27  school lunch period or assembly. Four additional drills shall be held in
    28  each school year during the hours after sunset  and  before  sunrise  in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03342-01-3
        A. 9676                             2

     1  school  buildings  in which students are provided with sleeping accommo-
     2  dations. At least two additional drills  shall  be  held  during  summer
     3  school  in  buildings  where summer school is conducted, and one of such
     4  drills shall be held during the first week of summer school.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.