Bill Text: NY A04593 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to require school districts to establish a parental/guardian notification program when potentially life threatening events occur on school grounds, e.g., bomb threats or guns or other weapons discovered or recovered.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A04593 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A04593-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4593 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, COLTON, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to notification of parents and guardians The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 56 to read as follows: 3 56. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate rules 4 and regulations to require all school districts to establish a program 5 to notify parents or guardians of school children when potentially life 6 threatening occurrences have taken place on school grounds. For purposes 7 of this subdivision life threatening occurrences shall include, but not 8 be limited to, bomb threats and the discovery or recovery of guns or 9 other weapons from students. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 11 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the commissioner of 12 education is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as may 13 be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act on its effective 14 date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06955-01-7
