New York Assembly Bill A06503 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6503 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 12, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STERN, K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring schools report certain threats and acts of violence to the federal bureau of investigations, the state police, and the office of mental health The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of 2 the education law, as amended by chapter 525 of the laws of 2019, are 3 amended to read as follows: 4 a. policies and procedures for responding to implied or direct threats 5 of violence by students, teachers, other school personnel including bus 6 drivers and monitors, as well as visitors to the school, including 7 threats by students against themselves, which for the purposes of this 8 section shall include suicide, including, but not limited to, reporting 9 such implied or direct threats of violence to the federal bureau of 10 investigations, the state police, and the office of mental health; 11 b. policies and procedures for responding to acts of violence by 12 students, teachers, other school personnel including bus drivers and 13 monitors, as well as visitors to the school, including consideration of 14 zero-tolerance policies for school violence, including, but not limited 15 to, reporting such acts of violence to the federal bureau of investi- 16 gations, the state police, and the office of mental health; 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 18 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the 19 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary 20 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized 21 to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07599-01-3