Bill Text: NY S00349 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the school district cyber crime prevention services program to provide school districts with information on strategies, best practices and programs offering training and assistance in the prevention of cyber crimes in school districts or otherwise affecting school districts; provides that information on eligibility and applications for financial assistance be made available to school districts; authorizes the New York state urban development corporation to provide loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to school districts for the purpose of preventing cyber crimes against school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00349 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00349-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 349 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, the New York state urban development corporation act and the executive law, in relation to school district cyber crime prevention services 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 115 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 115. School district cyber crime prevention services program. 1. 4 There is hereby established within the department a school district 5 cyber crime prevention services program. 6 2. The school district cyber crime prevention services program, 7 directly and in conjunction with other departments and agencies of the 8 state, federal agencies or local governments, shall provide school 9 districts with access to the following services: 10 (a) information on strategies, best practices and programs offering 11 training and assistance in the prevention of cyber crimes in school 12 districts or otherwise affecting school districts, including, but not 13 limited to: hacking, phishing and the use of viruses, malware and DoS 14 attacks; 15 (b) information on eligibility and applications for financial assist- 16 ance for school district cyber crime prevention services under paragraph 17 (o) of subdivision one of section sixteen-m of section one of chapter 18 one hundred seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-eight; 19 (c) information on eligibility and applications for other programs of 20 financial assistance for school district cyber crime prevention that may 21 from time to time be available from the state, federal agencies or local 22 governments; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01598-01-1S. 349 2 1 (d) information on protecting the assets of school districts from 2 cyber crime, including risk reduction strategies and insurance avail- 3 ability; and 4 (e) information on responses to cyber crime, including reporting of 5 cyber crimes, submitting insurance claims and cyber crime victim assist- 6 ance programs. 7 3. The school district cyber crime prevention services program shall, 8 with the assistance of other appropriate state agencies, identify issues 9 relating to cyber crime affecting school districts and assist the 10 department in making recommendations for legislative, regulatory and 11 programmatic actions to address such issues. 12 § 2. Paragraphs (m) and (n) of subdivision 1 of section 16-m of 13 section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New York 14 state urban development corporation act, paragraph (m) as added by chap- 15 ter 467 of the laws of 2011 and paragraph (n) as added by chapter 298 of 16 the laws of 2012, are amended and a new paragraph (o) is added to read 17 as follows: 18 (m) Assistance to businesses that conduct basic, applied or transla- 19 tional research that leads to the development of products that improve 20 human health or agriculture and that require approval by the federal 21 food and drug administration, in order to create or expand facilities, 22 in accordance with good manufacturing practice regulations, that will 23 create or retain more than fifty jobs. For purposes of this paragraph, 24 good manufacturing practice regulations refers to those regulations 25 promulgated by the United States Food and Drug Administration under the 26 authority of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act[.]; 27 (n) Loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to busi- 28 nesses, municipalities, industrial development agencies and local and 29 regional economic development corporations, not-for-profit corporations, 30 business improvement districts, regional marketing authorities and agri- 31 cultural cooperatives organized pursuant to the cooperative corporations 32 law, and other entities for the construction, reconstruction, improve- 33 ment, expansion or rehabilitation of wholesale regional farmers' markets 34 or food hubs that facilitate the sale and promotion of farm products 35 grown or produced in New York state. 36 For the purposes of this paragraph a wholesale regional farmers' 37 market or food hub is a market, business or organization that actively 38 manages the aggregation, distribution and marketing of source-identified 39 food products primarily from local or regional producers to satisfy 40 wholesale, retail and institutional demand for such products[.]; and 41 (o) Loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to school 42 districts for the purpose of preventing cyber crime against school 43 districts. 44 § 3. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new 45 subdivision 23 to read as follows: 46 23. Provide advice and assistance to the department of education in 47 developing and operating a program of school district cyber crime 48 prevention services pursuant to section one hundred fifteen of the 49 education law, and provide advice and assistance to the urban develop- 50 ment corporation in the development of the program of school district 51 cyber crime prevention assistance pursuant to paragraph (o) of subdivi- 52 sion one of section sixteen-m of section one of chapter one hundred 53 seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-eight. 54 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 55 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that 56 the department of education, the New York state urban development corpo-S. 349 3 1 ration and the division of criminal justice services shall be immediate- 2 ly authorized to take any and all actions necessary to fully implement 3 the provisions of this act on such date; and provided further that the 4 amendments to section 16-m of the urban development corporation act made 5 by section two of this act shall not affect the expiration of such 6 section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
