Establishes a competitive emergency mapping grant program which will provide grants to school districts or boards of cooperative educational services to upgrade their floor plans, blueprints, schematics or other maps of their school interior, school grounds and road maps of the immediate surrounding area included in their building level emergency response plans.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A10120
SPONSOR: Paulin TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a compet-
itive emergency mapping grant program
PURPOSE OF BILL:
This legislation will establish a competitive grant program to assist
school districts and boards of cooperative educational services in
creating and maintaining accurate, interoperable emergency response maps
for school facilities.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Adds a new section 2801-c to the education law to create a
competitive emergency mapping grant program.
Section 2. The act shall take effect immediately.
JUSTIFICATION:
New York has taken steps to enhance school safety through community
outreach programs, social workers and school resource officers, improv-
ing the safety infrastructure of our school buildings, and by passing
common sense legislation to protect all of our communities from the
tragic violence we have seen across the country.
Under current law, schools are already required to establish building-
level emergency response plans, including site mapping information.
However, many districts particularly high-need districts lack the
resources to create, modernize, and maintain accurate and usable digital
maps of their school buildings and grounds.
This legislation builds on existing school safety requirements by estab-
lishing a competitive grant program to help school districts and boards
of cooperative educational services upgrade their floor plans, blue-
prints, schematics, and related maps used for emergency response. By
supporting the creation and maintenance of accurate, digitized maps of
school facilities and surrounding areas, this program will enable law
enforcement and first responders to act more quickly and collaborate
more efficiently in emergencies.
By prioritizing high-need districts, this program directs state
resources to the communities least able to bear these costs on their
own, while strengthening school safety and emergency preparedness across
the state.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10120
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a compet-
itive emergency mapping grant program
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 2801-c
2 to read as follows:
3 § 2801-c. Emergency mapping grant program. 1. Subject to appropri-
4 ation, the commissioner shall establish a competitive emergency mapping
5 grant program which shall provide grants to school districts or boards
6 of cooperative educational services to upgrade their floor plans, blue-
7 prints, schematics or other maps of their school interior, school
8 grounds and road maps of the immediate surrounding area included in
9 their building level emergency response plans as required by paragraph c
10 of subdivision three of section twenty-eight hundred one-a of this arti-
11 cle, and for other school safety related purposes as determined by the
12 commissioner.
13 2. Districts or boards of cooperative educational services which
14 receive funds shall ensure their maps are in a format compatible with
15 software platforms used by local, state, county, and federal law
16 enforcement agencies that provide emergency services to the specific
17 school for which the data is provided without requiring such law
18 enforcement agencies to purchase additional software or requiring the
19 integration of third-party software to view the data, and compatible
20 with security software platforms in use by the specific school for which
21 the data is provided without requiring such school and law enforcement
22 agencies to purchase additional software or requiring the integration of
23 third-party software to view the data. Such site maps shall be verified
24 for accuracy through an initial and annual walkthrough of all school
25 buildings and grounds.
26 3. In awarding such grants, the commissioner shall prioritize high
27 need districts.
28 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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