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 to13the extent required by section ninety-five hundred thirty-two of the No14Child 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