STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2563 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, the New York state urban development corporation act and the executive law, in relation to school district cyber crime prevention services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 115 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 115. School district cyber crime prevention services program. 1. 4 There is hereby established within the department a school district 5 cyber crime prevention services program. 6 2. The school district cyber crime prevention services program, 7 directly and in conjunction with other departments and agencies of the 8 state, federal agencies or local governments, shall provide school 9 districts with access to the following services: 10 (a) information on strategies, best practices and programs offering 11 training and assistance in the prevention of cyber crimes in school 12 districts or otherwise affecting school districts, including, but not 13 limited to: hacking, phishing and the use of viruses, malware and DoS 14 attacks; 15 (b) information on eligibility and applications for financial assist- 16 ance for school district cyber crime prevention services under paragraph 17 (p) of subdivision one of section sixteen-m of section one of chapter 18 one hundred seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-eight; 19 (c) information on eligibility and applications for other programs of 20 financial assistance for school district cyber crime prevention that may 21 from time to time be available from the state, federal agencies or local 22 governments; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02344-01-3
S. 2563 2 1 (d) information on protecting the assets of school districts from 2 cyber crime, including risk reduction strategies and insurance avail- 3 ability; and 4 (e) information on responses to cyber crime, including reporting of 5 cyber crimes, submitting insurance claims and cyber crime victim assist- 6 ance programs. 7 3. The school district cyber crime prevention services program shall, 8 with the assistance of other appropriate state agencies, identify issues 9 relating to cyber crime affecting school districts and assist the 10 department in making recommendations for legislative, regulatory and 11 programmatic actions to address such issues. 12 § 2. Paragraphs (m), (n) and (o) of subdivision 1 of section 16-m of 13 section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New York 14 state urban development corporation act, paragraph (m) as added by chap- 15 ter 467 of the laws of 2011, paragraph (n) as added by chapter 298 of 16 the laws of 2012, and paragraph (o) as added by chapter 804 of the laws 17 of 2022, are amended and a new paragraph (p) is added to read as 18 follows: 19 (m) Assistance to businesses that conduct basic, applied or transla- 20 tional research that leads to the development of products that improve 21 human health or agriculture and that require approval by the federal 22 food and drug administration, in order to create or expand facilities, 23 in accordance with good manufacturing practice regulations, that will 24 create or retain more than fifty jobs. For purposes of this paragraph, 25 good manufacturing practice regulations refers to those regulations 26 promulgated by the United States Food and Drug Administration under the 27 authority of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act[.]; 28 (n) Loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to busi- 29 nesses, municipalities, industrial development agencies and local and 30 regional economic development corporations, not-for-profit corporations, 31 business improvement districts, regional marketing authorities and agri- 32 cultural cooperatives organized pursuant to the cooperative corporations 33 law, and other entities for the construction, reconstruction, improve- 34 ment, expansion or rehabilitation of wholesale regional farmers' markets 35 or food hubs that facilitate the sale and promotion of farm products 36 grown or produced in New York state. 37 For the purposes of this paragraph a wholesale regional farmers' 38 market or food hub is a market, business or organization that actively 39 manages the aggregation, distribution and marketing of source-identified 40 food products primarily from local or regional producers to satisfy 41 wholesale, retail and institutional demand for such products[.]; 42 (o) Assistance to eligible entities pursuant to article five-A of the 43 cooperative corporations law to provide financing in the form of loans, 44 loan guarantees, and interest subsidy grants to subsidize loans from 45 federally chartered instrumentalities and state and private lending 46 institutions to facilitate the creation of worker cooperatives that 47 promote continuation of existing micro-businesses either as a part of a 48 preexisting business succession of ownership plan or as an alternative 49 option if a business is being offered for sale or transfer by the 50 current owner or the heirs or estate of a deceased owner. For the 51 purposes of this section, a micro-business shall be defined as a busi- 52 ness with five or less full-time or full-time equivalent employees. All 53 eligible entities shall be required to submit a business plan with their 54 application requesting assistance[.]; and
S. 2563 3 1 (p) Loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to school 2 districts for the purpose of preventing cyber crime against school 3 districts. 4 § 3. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new 5 subdivision 24 to read as follows: 6 24. Provide advice and assistance to the department of education in 7 developing and operating a program of school district cyber crime 8 prevention services pursuant to section one hundred fifteen of the 9 education law, and provide advice and assistance to the urban develop- 10 ment corporation in the development of the program of school district 11 cyber crime prevention assistance pursuant to paragraph (p) of subdivi- 12 sion one of section sixteen-m of section one of chapter one hundred 13 seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-eight. 14 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 15 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that 16 the department of education, the New York state urban development corpo- 17 ration and the division of criminal justice services shall be immediate- 18 ly authorized to take any and all actions necessary to fully implement 19 the provisions of this act on such date; and provided further that the 20 amendments to section 16-m of the urban development corporation act made 21 by section two of this act shall not affect the expiration of such 22 section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.