Bill Text: NY A02023 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to creating a school resource officer program to permit the employment of retired law enforcement officers and provide grants to school districts and non-public schools for such purpose.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 22-3)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-08 - held for consideration in education [A02023 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02023-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2023 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, FRIEND, J. A. GIGLIO, NORRIS, RA, TAGUE, THIELE, McDONOUGH, MORINELLO, REILLY, DeSTEFANO, BRABENEC, BUTTENS- CHON, ANGELINO, GALLAHAN, DURSO, MANKTELOW, BLANKENBUSH, SAYEGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law and the retirement and social security law, in relation to a school resource officer program 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 2801-c 2 to read as follows: 3 § 2801-c. New York state school resource officer program. 1. For 4 purposes of this section, the term "school resource officer" shall mean 5 a school resource officer, school safety officer, school security offi- 6 cer, or any other substantially similar position or office, that is 7 designed to provide improved public safety and/or security on school 8 grounds. Such school resource officer may be a retired police officer, a 9 retired state trooper, a retired deputy sheriff, a state trooper, a 10 police officer in the active duty service of a town, city or village, or 11 a deputy sheriff from a county sheriff's department. 12 2. Any public or nonpublic school may employ, in either the classified 13 or unclassified service, any school resource officer for the purpose of 14 providing improved public safety and/or security on school grounds. Any 15 such public or nonpublic school may also contract with the state of New 16 York, or a county, city, town or village, for the provision of a state 17 trooper, police officer or deputy sheriff, to serve as a school resource 18 officer, for the purpose of providing improved public safety and/or 19 security on school grounds. A school district shall be authorized to 20 employ or contract for as many school resource officers as such district 21 deems necessary. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00350-01-3A. 2023 2 1 3. It shall be the primary role of the school resource officer to 2 provide improved public safety and/or security on school grounds. In 3 addition to this primary role, school resource officers also may serve 4 additional roles, including but not limited to: 5 (a) Proposing and enforcing policies and administrative procedures 6 related to school safety; 7 (b) Utilizing technology with the implementation of a comprehensive 8 safety program; 9 (c) Serving as a liaison with other school officials and other commu- 10 nity agencies, including but not limited to, other law enforcement enti- 11 ties, courts, health care entities, and mental health entities; 12 (d) Proposing and implementing strategies concerning prevention, 13 response and recovery efforts for incidents and/or emergency situations 14 occurring on school grounds and/or involving students, faculty, adminis- 15 tration or visitors to the school; 16 (e) Proposing and assisting in the execution of school emergency 17 drills and proposing and assisting in the creation of school safety 18 plans; 19 (f) Providing educational and mentoring services to students; 20 (g) Assisting in the design, explanation and enforcement of school 21 safety and security policies and procedures; and 22 (h) Performing such other and further roles, responsibilities and 23 activities as the school district may deem appropriate and proper for a 24 law enforcement officer to perform, in order to advance the security, 25 safety and well-being of students, faculty, administration and visitors 26 to the school district's schools, transportation vehicles and school 27 grounds. 28 4. Such school resource officer may carry and possess firearms during 29 the course of their duties at such school district, but nothing in this 30 subdivision shall be deemed to authorize such school resource officer to 31 carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate 32 license therefor has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal 33 law. 34 § 2. Section 3641 of the education law is amended by adding a new 35 subdivision 18 to read as follows: 36 18. School resource officer grants. a. In the two thousand twenty- 37 three--two thousand twenty-four school year and thereafter, within the 38 amount appropriated for services and expenses related to the expense of 39 school resource officers, the commissioner shall provide grants pursuant 40 to this subdivision to: (1) public school districts other than a city 41 school district in a city with a population of one million or more 42 inhabitants, (2) charter schools, and (3) non-public schools. 43 b. Grants under this subdivision shall be equal to the greater of 44 fifty thousand dollars or the product of (1) twenty thousand dollars, 45 and (2) the greater of (A) the total number of instructional school 46 buildings owned, leased or in use for instructional purposes by such 47 public school district, charter school, or non-public school, or (B) the 48 quotient of the enrollment of such public school district pursuant to 49 paragraph n of subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this 50 article divided by two hundred fifty, and (3) the aid ratio pursuant to 51 subdivision seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this article, 52 provided that for a charter school or non-public school, the aid ratio 53 shall be the aid ratio for the public school district where the charter 54 school or the non-public school is located. 55 c. The commissioner shall be authorized to adopt regulations to imple- 56 ment the provisions of this subdivision.A. 2023 3 1 d. In the event the appropriation for purposes of this subdivision in 2 any year is insufficient to pay all claims received pursuant to this 3 subdivision, the commissioner shall pay such claims on a prorated basis 4 among all districts filing such claims until the appropriation is 5 exhausted. 6 § 3. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 211 7 of the retirement and social security law, as amended by chapter 640 of 8 the laws of 2008, is amended and a new subparagraph 3-a is added to read 9 as follows: 10 (2) that he or she will earn more than one thousand dollars in one 11 year, including compensation earned in such position under other 12 provisions of this article that there are not readily available for 13 recruitment persons qualified to perform the duties of such position; 14 [and (4)];] 15 (3-a) that his or her employment title and respective duties will be 16 restricted to school resource officer as such term is defined in section 17 twenty-eight hundred one-c of the education law; 18 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
