Enacts "Alyssa's law"; authorizes school boards to include information regarding the installation of a panic alarm system in any school in the district in the district-wide safety plan; defines "panic alarm system".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7132--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 2, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Education
in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school
boards to include information regarding the installation of a panic
alarm system in any school in the district in the district-wide safety
plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 "Alyssa's Law".
3 § 2. Paragraph f of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the education
4 law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of
5 2016, is amended to read as follows:
6 f. policies and procedures relating to school building security,
7 including where appropriate the use of school safety officers and/or
8 security devices or procedures. District-wide school safety teams shall
9 consider, as part of its reviews of the comprehensive district-wide
10 safety plan, the installation of a panic alarm system. For purposes of
11 this paragraph, "panic alarm system" shall mean a silent security system
12 signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal
13 a life-threatening or emergency situation requiring a response from
14 local law enforcement or, in the case of a school building located in a
15 municipality in which there is no municipal police department, a
16 location designated by the superintendent of state police and may
17 include one or more of the following: wired panic button or buttons,
18 wireless panic button or buttons or a mobile or computer application;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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S. 7132--B 2
1 § 3. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section 2801-a of the education
2 law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of
3 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 d. establishment of internal and external communication systems in
5 emergencies which may include the installation of a panic alarm system;
6 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately,
7 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
8 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
9 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date