New York Assembly Bill A04741 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4741 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a state- wide school safety tip line 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 319 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 319. Statewide school safety tip line. 1. The commissioner shall 4 establish a statewide school safety tip line. The tip line shall be a 5 statewide telecommunications resource that accepts information via tele- 6 phone, text message, the internet, or any other medium for the purpose 7 of reporting information related to incidents of students causing harm 8 to the physical or mental health of another student or school employee, 9 or a threat of such harm. 10 2. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary 11 to operate the tip line, including, but not limited to: 12 (a) provisions which protect the personally identifiable information 13 of the person reporting information but which permit local law enforce- 14 ment or school personnel to follow up on such reports or obtain further 15 information from the person making the report; 16 (b) procedures for logging reports received on the tip line; 17 (c) referral of information to school districts or law enforcement; 18 and 19 (d) tracking outcomes of any action taken in response to the referral. 20 3. Any person authorized to receive personally identifiable informa- 21 tion through the tip line may only disclose such information for the 22 purpose of making follow-up contact or obtaining or providing further 23 information, unless such disclosure is required by another provision of 24 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08577-01-5 
 A. 4741 2 1 4. Nothing in this section shall prevent the department from releasing 2 aggregated or summary data for reporting purposes; or educating the 3 public about the tip line through narratives of cases, without disclo- 4 sure of personally identifiable information. 5 5. Every public school building shall display one or more signs adver- 6 tising the tip line that is visible to school employees, students, and 7 parents or guardians. 8 6. The statewide tip line mandated under this section shall not 9 preclude operation of any other such tip line or other similar resource 10 operated regionally or by a school district in this state. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law.