Bill Text: NY A04917 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Provides funding for school anti-violence education programs through the omnibus school violence prevention grant program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-06-05 - substituted by s4598d [A04917 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04917-Amended.html
Bill Title: Provides funding for school anti-violence education programs through the omnibus school violence prevention grant program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-06-05 - substituted by s4598d [A04917 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04917-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4917--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ANDERSON, SOLAGES, ZINERMAN, GIBBS, CUNNINGHAM, JACKSON, MEEKS, DE LOS SANTOS, SHIMSKY, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, SIMON, RAGA, SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law and the state finance law, in relation to enacting the "school anti-violence education act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "school anti-violence education act". 3 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 115 to read 4 as follows: 5 § 115. School anti-violence education. 1. Legislative findings. The 6 legislature hereby finds and declares that gun violence and other forms 7 of violence constitute a crisis that poses a serious threat to the 8 health and quality of life of all residents of the state of New York, 9 particularly youth under eighteen years of age. An epidemic of violence 10 is tearing at the fabric of life in many urban areas. The legislature 11 further finds that funds should be used to support school anti-violence 12 education programs. 13 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms 14 shall have the following meanings: 15 (a) "evidence-based anti-violence program" means a program or an 16 initiative that: 17 (i) is developed and evaluated through scientific research and data 18 collection; 19 (ii) uses public health principles that demonstrate measurable posi- 20 tive outcomes in preventing gun violence; and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08152-04-4A. 4917--A 2 1 (iii) is implemented by a nonprofit organization or public entity at 2 or in affiliation with a government-funded public school. 3 (b) "school anti-violence education program" means a school-based or 4 school-affiliated evidence-based anti-violence education program that is 5 operated by: 6 (i) a nonprofit organization or public entity; and 7 (ii) provides evidence-based trauma-support and group counseling and 8 anti-gun violence education that includes personal and group develop- 9 ment, research-based facts and misconceptions about guns and the gun 10 violence crisis, and youth empowerment programming. 11 3. School anti-violence education program. (a) The department is 12 authorized to establish school anti-violence education programs, which 13 shall be funded from the school anti-violence education fund established 14 by section ninety-seven-bbbb of the state finance law. 15 (b) No firearms shall be used for training or demonstration or another 16 use in any school anti-violence education program established pursuant 17 to this section. 18 (c) The department shall secure alternative funding sources other than 19 the state to fund school anti-violence education programs, including 20 local government and private sources as well as funding from the federal 21 government. 22 § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 97-bbbb 23 to read as follows: 24 § 97-bbbb. School anti-violence education fund. 1. There is hereby 25 established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the 26 commissioner of education a fund to be known as the "school anti-vio- 27 lence education fund". 28 2. The school anti-violence education fund shall consist of and all 29 monies appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other 30 fund or source pursuant to law. 31 3. Monies of the school anti-violence education fund shall be expended 32 only: 33 (a) pursuant to section one hundred fifteen of the education law; 34 (b) to support effective violence reduction strategies for school- 35 based and school-affiliated anti-violence programs by providing grants 36 to local governments and nonprofit organizations to fund evidence-based 37 school anti-violence programs or evidence-informed school anti-violence 38 programs; and 39 (c) for the evaluation of the efficacy of evidence-based school anti- 40 violence programs or evidence-informed school anti-violence programs 41 awarded grants through the fund. 42 4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of 43 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner 44 of education. 45 § 4. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this act shall 46 be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid and 47 after exhaustion of all further judicial review, the judgment shall not 48 affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be 49 confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or section 50 of this act directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment 51 shall have been rendered. 52 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
