Bill Text: NY A08887 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8887 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires school emergency response drills to include drills to respond to an active shooter, other lethal attackers, and attacks with explosives, or chemical, biological or radiological agents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in education [A08887 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08887-Amended.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8887--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  school  emergency
          response drills
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  807  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  2  of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in charge  of
     5  every  public  or  private  school or educational institution within the
     6  state, other than colleges or universities, to instruct  and  train  the
     7  pupils  by  means  of  drills, so that they may in a sudden emergency be
     8  able to respond appropriately in the shortest possible time and  without
     9  confusion  or  panic. Such drills shall be held at least twelve times in
    10  each school year, eight of which required drills shall be  held  between
    11  September  first  and  December thirty-first of each such year. Eight of
    12  all such drills shall be evacuation  drills,  four  of  which  shall  be
    13  through  use  of  the  fire  escapes on buildings where fire escapes are
    14  provided or through the use of identified  secondary  means  of  egress.
    15  Four of all such required drills shall be [lock-down] emergency response
    16  drills.  Emergency response drills shall include drills to respond to an
    17  active shooter or other lethal attacker at  the  school,  or  an  attack
    18  using  explosives,  biological,  chemical or radiological agents. Drills
    19  shall be conducted at different times of the school day, with  at  least
    20  one  of  the  eight  required  evacuation drills occurring during a mass
    21  gathering event such as lunch or assemblies. Pupils shall be  instructed
    22  in  the  procedure to be followed in the event that a fire occurs during
    23  the lunch period or assembly, provided  however,  that  such  additional
    24  instruction  may  be  waived  where  a  drill is held during the regular
    25  school lunch period or assembly. Four additional drills shall be held in
    26  each school year during the hours after sunset  and  before  sunrise  in
    27  school  buildings  in which students are provided with sleeping accommo-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11351-06-8

        A. 8887--A                          2
     1  dations. At least two additional drills  shall  be  held  during  summer
     2  school  in  buildings  where summer school is conducted, and one of such
     3  drills shall be held during the first week of summer school.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.