STATE OF NEW YORK
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1553
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2023
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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.
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