Bill Text: NY A10601 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10601 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to grants to cover the costs of school resource officers; authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities to provide school resource officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-07-06 - referred to education [A10601 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10601-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10601

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 6, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to grants to cover the
          costs of school resource officers and authorizing  boards  of  cooper-
          ative  educational  services to enter into contracts with local police
          entities to provide school resource officers

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  3641 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
     3    18.  School resource officer grant.  a. For the two  thousand  twenty-
     4  two--two  thousand twenty-three school year and subsequent school years,
     5  eligible school districts shall receive  grants  in  aid  equal  to  one
     6  hundred  percent of the combined annual salaries paid to school resource
     7  officers employed at schools in the district.
     8    b. For purposes of this section, the term  "school  resource  officer"
     9  shall  mean  a  school  resource  officer, school safety officer, school
    10  security officer, or any other substantially similar position or office,
    11  that is designed to provide improved public safety  and/or  security  on
    12  school  grounds.  Such  school  resource officer may be a retired police
    13  officer, a retired state trooper, a  retired  deputy  sheriff,  a  state
    14  trooper,  a police officer in the active duty service of a town, city or
    15  village, or a deputy sheriff from a county sheriff's department.
    16    § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the education law
    17  is amended by adding a new subparagraph 14 to read as follows:
    18    (14) To enter into contracts with local  police  entities  to  provide
    19  school  resource  officers, as such term is defined in subdivision eigh-
    20  teen of section thirty-six hundred forty-one of this  chapter,  provided
    21  that  the  costs  of such school resource officers shall be eligible for
    22  grants to the same extent and on  the  same  basis  as  eligible  school
    23  districts pursuant to subdivision eighteen of section thirty-six hundred
    24  forty-one of this chapter.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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