S04814 Summary:

BILL NOS04814
 
SAME ASSAME AS A00703
 
SPONSORRYAN C
 
COSPNSRHELMING
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§3641 & 1950, Ed L
 
Relates to the provision of grants to eligible school districts to cover the costs of school resource officers employed at schools in such districts; authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities to provide school resource officers.
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S04814 Actions:

BILL NOS04814
 
02/13/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION
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S04814 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4814
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 13, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 grants  to  cover  the
          costs  of  school  resource officers and authorizing boards of cooper-
          ative educational services to enter into contracts with  local  police
          entities to provide school resource officers
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 3641 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
     3    18.    School  resource officer grant. a. For the two thousand twenty-
     4  five--two thousand twenty-six school year and subsequent  school  years,
     5  eligible  school  districts  shall  receive  grants  in aid equal to one
     6  hundred percent of the combined annual salaries paid to school  resource
     7  officers employed at schools in the district.
     8    b.  For  purposes  of this section, the term "school resource officer"
     9  shall mean a school resource  officer,  school  safety  officer,  school
    10  security  officer,  school  police  officer,  or any other substantially
    11  similar position or office, that is designed to provide improved  public
    12  safety  and/or  security on school grounds. Such school resource officer
    13  may be a retired police officer, a  retired  state  trooper,  a  retired
    14  deputy  sheriff,  a  state  trooper, a police officer in the active duty
    15  service of a town, city or village, or a deputy sheriff  from  a  county
    16  sheriff's department.
    17    § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the education law
    18  is amended by adding a new subparagraph 14 to read as follows:
    19    (14)  To  enter  into  contracts with local police entities to provide
    20  school resource officers, as such term is defined in  subdivision  eigh-
    21  teen  of  section thirty-six hundred forty-one of this chapter, provided
    22  that the costs of such school resource officers shall  be  eligible  for
    23  grants  to  the  same  extent  and  on the same basis as eligible school
    24  districts pursuant to subdivision eighteen of section thirty-six hundred
    25  forty-one of this chapter.
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02507-01-5
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