Bill Text: NY S00367 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes educational institutions to agree to pay for all or a portion of the salaries and compensation payable to municipal school crossing guards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2954B [S00367 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           367
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to amend the  general municipal law, in relation  to  authorizing
          educational  institutions  to  pay  the  salaries  and compensation of
          school crossing guards
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 208-a of the general municipal law, as amended by
     2  chapter 131 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 208-a. School guards.  The duly constituted authorities of any city,
     4  town, or village or any county police department or police district  may
     5  designate,  authorize  and  appoint  such  a  number  of persons as such
     6  authority shall deem necessary, and at such salaries as  such  authority
     7  shall  deem  advisable,  as  school crossing guards to aid in protecting
     8  school children going to and from school, and church crossing guards  to
     9  aid  in  protecting persons going to and from places of worship, and for
    10  such purpose shall have power to control vehicular traffic  within  such
    11  municipality.  A  public  school,  school district, board of cooperative
    12  educational services and any other public or private educational  insti-
    13  tution may enter into an agreement with any city, town, village or coun-
    14  ty  police department or police district whereby such educational insti-
    15  tution pays all or any portion of the salaries and compensation  of  the
    16  school crossing guards providing services to the students of such insti-
    17  tution.
    18    § 2. 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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