Bill Text: NY A10587 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Adds training of school personnel in non-lethal defense skills to requirements for school safety plans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-07-06 - referred to education [A10587 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A10587-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10587 IN ASSEMBLY July 6, 2022 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. DiPietro) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to training of school personnel in non-lethal defense skills The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the 2 education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the 3 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows: 4 c. appropriate prevention and intervention strategies such as: 5 (i) collaborative arrangements with state and local law enforcement 6 officials, designed to ensure that school safety officers and other 7 security personnel are adequately trained, including being trained to 8 de-escalate potentially violent situations, and are effectively and 9 fairly recruited; 10 (ii) non-violent conflict resolution training programs; 11 (iii) training in alternative defense skills for all school staff, 12 including the use of gel pepper spray, tasers and other non-lethal forms 13 of defense; 14 (iv) peer mediation programs and youth courts; and 15 [(iv)] (v) extended day and other school safety programs; 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 17 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15964-01-2