Bill Text: NY A09975 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a police officer to be present at schools within the city of New York during instructional hours and at least one hour prior and one hour after such instructional hours.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in education [A09975 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09975-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9975 IN ASSEMBLY March 2, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CASTORINA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring a police officer to be present at schools within the city of New York during instructional hours The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended 2 by adding a new section 10-179 to read as follows: 3 § 10-179 School safety measures. The police commissioner of the city 4 shall assign a police officer at least one hour prior to the commence- 5 ment of instructional hours at every school, public and/or private, 6 within the city of New York. Such police officer shall remain on site at 7 such school during instructional hours and for a minimum one hour post 8 instructional hours unless, in the discretion of the mayor of the city 9 or the police commissioner of the city, a state of emergency exists 10 requiring redeployment of a police officer during the required hours set 11 forth in this section. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13271-03-8
