Bill Text: NY S04781 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a principal, superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04781 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04781-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4781--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a principal,
          superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify
          law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph i of subdivision 1 of section 13 of the education
     2  law,  as added by chapter 102 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    i. require the principal, superintendent or the principal's or  super-
     5  intendent's  designee,  to  notify  promptly  the  appropriate local law
     6  enforcement agency when such principal, superintendent  or  the  princi-
     7  pal's or superintendent's designee, believes that any harassment, bully-
     8  ing or discrimination constitutes criminal conduct. Where the principal,
     9  superintendent  or the principal's or superintendent's designee believes
    10  that any harassment,  bullying  or  discrimination  constitutes  a  hate
    11  crime, as defined in subdivision one of section 485.05 of the penal law,
    12  prompt  notification  to  the  appropriate  local law enforcement agency
    13  shall occur within forty-eight  hours  from  the  time  such  principal,
    14  superintendent  or the principal's or superintendent's designee believes
    15  that such harassment, bullying  or  discrimination  constitutes  a  hate
    16  crime;
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07566-02-0