Bill Text: NY A09799 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires persistently dangerous schools to file an incident reduction plan detailing the steps the school will take to reduce incidents of violence and disruption and requires notice to be given to victims of harassment, bullying, or violent offenses of their right to transfer to another public school.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - referred to education [A09799 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09799-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9799
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 8, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEPULVEDA  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring persistently
          dangerous schools to file an incident  reduction  plan  detailing  the
          steps  the  school  will  take  to  reduce  incidents  of violence and
          disruption and requiring notice to be given to victims of  harassment,
          bullying,  or  violent  offenses of their right to transfer to another
          public school
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section 2802 of the education law, as
     2  added by chapter 425 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     3    7. Notwithstanding any other provision of state or local law, rule  or
     4  regulation  to  the  contrary,  any  student  who attends a persistently
     5  dangerous public elementary or secondary school, as  determined  by  the
     6  commissioner  pursuant  to  paragraph a of this subdivision, or who is a
     7  victim of harassment or bullying, as  defined  pursuant  to  subdivision
     8  seven  of section eleven of this chapter, or a violent criminal offense,
     9  as defined pursuant  to  paragraph  [b]  c  of  this  subdivision,  that
    10  occurred  on the grounds of a public elementary or secondary school that
    11  the student attends, shall [be allowed to  attend]  have  the  right  to
    12  transfer to a safe public school within the [local educational agency to
    13  the  extent required by section ninety-five hundred thirty-two of the No
    14  Child Left Behind Act of 2001] school district.
    15    a. The commissioner shall annually determine which  public  elementary
    16  and  secondary  schools  are  persistently  dangerous in accordance with
    17  regulations of the commissioner developed in consultation with a  repre-
    18  sentative sample of local educational agencies. Such determination shall
    19  be  based on data submitted through the uniform violent incident report-
    20  ing system over a period prescribed in the regulations, which shall  not
    21  be  less  than  two  years,  reports  of  violent incidents and criminal
    22  offenses from school safety  agents  and  police  officers,  reports  of
    23  violent or harmful conduct by teachers and administrative staff, and any
    24  other data reasonably required by the commissioner related to safety.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14721-01-6
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