Bill Text: NY S06629 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-20 - PRINT NUMBER 6629B [S06629 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06629-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6629--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. MANNION, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Education  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee  --  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 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  four--two thousand twenty-five 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,  school  police  officer,  or any other substantially
    11  similar position or office, that is designed to provide improved  public
    12  safety  and/or  security on school grounds. Such school resource officer
    13  may be a retired police officer, a  retired  state  trooper,  a  retired
    14  deputy  sheriff,  a  state  trooper, a police officer in the active duty
    15  service of a town, city or village, or a deputy sheriff  from  a  county
    16  sheriff's department.
    17    § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the education law
    18  is amended by adding a new subparagraph 14 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05185-04-4
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     1    (14)  To  enter  into  contracts with local police entities to provide
     2  school resource officers, as such term is defined in  subdivision  eigh-
     3  teen  of  section thirty-six hundred forty-one of this chapter, provided
     4  that the costs of such school resource officers shall  be  eligible  for
     5  grants  to  the  same  extent  and  on the same basis as eligible school
     6  districts pursuant to subdivision eighteen of section thirty-six hundred
     7  forty-one of this chapter.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.