Bill Text: NY S00172 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to alerting all public and non-public schools of the state in the event of a general threat of a terroristic nature against a single, multiple or all of the schools of the state; requires the school safety team to designate an individual to notify the education department in the event the school district receives a general threat of harm against any school or schools within the district or anywhere in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00172 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00172-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          172
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  alerting  all  public
         and  non-public  schools of the state in the event of a general threat
         against the schools of the state
         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 319 to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S  319. SCHOOL SAFETY ALERT. THE COMMISSIONER OR HIS OR HER AUTHORIZED
    4  DESIGNEE SHALL DESIGNATE AN INDIVIDUAL TO RECEIVE  INFORMATION  RELATING
    5  TO  A  GENERAL  THREAT OF HARM MADE AGAINST A SINGLE, MULTIPLE OR ALL OF
    6  THE SCHOOLS OF THE STATE.  FOLLOWING THE RECEIPT  OF  SUCH  INFORMATION,
    7  THE  COMMISSIONER  OR  HIS  OR  HER AUTHORIZED DESIGNEE SHALL NOTIFY ALL
    8  PUBLIC AND NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE OF THE  THREAT.  THE  COMMIS-
    9  SIONER  OR HIS OR HER AUTHORIZED DESIGNEE SHALL MAINTAIN UPDATED CONTACT
   10  INFORMATION FOR ALL NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOCATED  WITHIN  THE  STATE,  AND
   11  SHALL DEVELOP ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO ENSURE TIMELY NOTIFICATION PURSUANT
   12  TO THIS SECTION.
   13    S  2.  Section  2801-a of the education law is amended by adding a new
   14  subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
   15    3-A. THE SCHOOL SAFETY TEAM SHALL DESIGNATE AN  INDIVIDUAL  TO  NOTIFY
   16  THE  DEPARTMENT,  PURSUANT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED
   17  NINETEEN OF THIS CHAPTER, IN THE EVENT THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT RECEIVES
   18  INFORMATION RELATING TO A GENERAL THREAT OF HARM MADE AGAINST A  SINGLE,
   19  MULTIPLE OR ALL OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE STATE.
   20    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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