STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6677 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 28, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to training of school personnel in non-lethal defense skills The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the 2 education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the 3 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows: 4 c. appropriate prevention and intervention strategies such as: 5 (i) collaborative arrangements with state and local law enforcement 6 officials, designed to ensure that school safety officers and other 7 security personnel are adequately trained, including being trained to 8 de-escalate potentially violent situations, and are effectively and 9 fairly recruited; 10 (ii) non-violent conflict resolution training programs; 11 (iii) training in alternative defense skills for all school staff, 12 including the use of gel pepper spray, tasers and other non-lethal forms 13 of defense; 14 (iv) peer mediation programs and youth courts; and 15 [(iv)] (v) extended day and other school safety programs; 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 17 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06833-01-3