Bill Text: NY S07132 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts "Alyssa's law"; authorizes school boards to include information regarding the installation of a panic alarm system in any school in the district in the district-wide safety plan; defines "panic alarm system".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-23 - SIGNED CHAP.227 [S07132 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07132-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7132--B 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 2, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted 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 commit- tee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school boards to include information regarding the installation of a panic alarm system in any school in the district in the district-wide safety plan The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Alyssa's Law". 3 § 2. Paragraph f of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the education 4 law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of 5 2016, is amended to read as follows: 6 f. policies and procedures relating to school building security, 7 including where appropriate the use of school safety officers and/or 8 security devices or procedures. District-wide school safety teams shall 9 consider, as part of its reviews of the comprehensive district-wide 10 safety plan, the installation of a panic alarm system. For purposes of 11 this paragraph, "panic alarm system" shall mean a silent security system 12 signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal 13 a life-threatening or emergency situation requiring a response from 14 local law enforcement or, in the case of a school building located in a 15 municipality in which there is no municipal police department, a 16 location designated by the superintendent of state police and may 17 include one or more of the following: wired panic button or buttons, 18 wireless panic button or buttons or a mobile or computer application; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11301-04-2S. 7132--B 2 1 § 3. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section 2801-a of the education 2 law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of 3 2016, is amended to read as follows: 4 d. establishment of internal and external communication systems in 5 emergencies which may include the installation of a panic alarm system; 6 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately, 7 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- 8 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 9 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date