Bill Text: NY S06272 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires school emergency response drills to include drills to respond to an active shooter, other lethal attackers, and attacks with explosives, or chemical, biological or radiological agents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S06272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06272-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6272--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- 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  school  emergency
          response drills
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  807  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  2  of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in charge  of
     5  every  public  or  private  school or educational institution within the
     6  state, other than colleges or universities, to instruct  and  train  the
     7  pupils  by  means  of  drills, so that they may in a sudden emergency be
     8  able to respond appropriately in the shortest possible time and  without
     9  confusion  or  panic. Such drills shall be held at least twelve times in
    10  each school year, eight of which required drills shall be  held  between
    11  September  first  and  December thirty-first of each such year. Eight of
    12  all such drills shall be evacuation  drills,  four  of  which  shall  be
    13  through  use  of  the  fire  escapes on buildings where fire escapes are
    14  provided or through the use of identified  secondary  means  of  egress.
    15  Four of all such required drills shall be [lock-down] emergency response
    16  drills.  Emergency response drills shall include drills to respond to an
    17  active shooter or other lethal attacker at  the  school,  or  an  attack
    18  using  explosives,  biological,  chemical or radiological agents. Drills
    19  shall be conducted at different times of the school day, with  at  least
    20  one  of  the  eight  required  evacuation drills occurring during a mass
    21  gathering event such as lunch or assemblies. Pupils shall be  instructed
    22  in  the  procedure to be followed in the event that a fire occurs during
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the lunch period or assembly, provided  however,  that  such  additional
     2  instruction  may  be  waived  where  a  drill is held during the regular
     3  school lunch period or assembly. Four additional drills shall be held in
     4  each  school  year  during  the hours after sunset and before sunrise in
     5  school buildings in which students are provided with  sleeping  accommo-
     6  dations.  At  least  two  additional  drills shall be held during summer
     7  school in buildings where summer school is conducted, and  one  of  such
     8  drills shall be held during the first week of summer school.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.