New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S01553 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/12/2023

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1553 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 12, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring that public and nonpublic schools be locked during the school day The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 57 to read as follows: 3 57. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the 4 commissioner shall require that every entrance from the street, passage- 5 way, courtyard, cellar, or similar entrance to any public or nonpublic 6 school in this state, shall be locked at all times during the school 7 day. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04364-01-3