Bill Text: NY A06161 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires colleges to report crimes occurring on their campuses or other property to local police; requires such information also be reported monthly to the division of criminal justice services for compilation in an annual report thereon, which report is to include findings and recommendations; conditions receipt of state aid to colleges upon submission of such reports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A06161 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06161-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6161

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law and the executive law, in relation to
          reports of crimes occurring on college campuses

          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 6450
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6450. Reports of crimes occurring on college  campuses.  1.    Every
     4  college  chartered  by the regents or incorporated by special act of the
     5  legislature shall promptly report all criminal activity on  its  college
     6  campuses and other college property used for educational purposes to the
     7  local  police  agency  having  jurisdiction  over the area in which such
     8  campuses or property is located. Every such college  shall  also  report
     9  such  information,  on  a  monthly  basis,  to  the division of criminal
    10  justice services.
    11    2. If a college fails to comply with the provisions of  this  section,
    12  such  college  shall not be eligible to receive any state aid or assist-
    13  ance until such failure is cured.
    14    § 2. Section 837-a of the executive law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    15  subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    16    10.  (a)  The division shall receive and compile the data furnished to
    17  it by colleges pursuant to  section  sixty-four  hundred  fifty  of  the
    18  education  law  and  shall publish such compilation of data in an annual
    19  report to the governor and the  legislature  on  college  campus  crime,
    20  which  report  shall include the division's findings and recommendations
    21  with respect thereto.
    22    (b) The division shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be
    23  necessary to carry out the provisions of this subdivision.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  ment, and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for  the  imple-
     2  mentation  of  this  act on its effective date are authorized to be made
     3  and completed on or before such effective date.