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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1245--A
                                                                 Cal. No. 83
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 7, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. LANCMAN, NOLAN, WEPRIN, ALFANO, GREENE, BENEDET-
          TO, MAISEL, PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Education -- reported from committee,

          advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,  retaining
          its place on the order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "public
          schools emergency alert act"
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall be known and may be cited as the "public
     2  schools emergency alert act".
     3    § 2. The education law is amended by adding a  new  section  409-j  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 409-j. Emergency alert notification system in public schools; cities
     6  with  a  population  of one million or more. On or before January first,
     7  two thousand ten, a city school  district  located  in  a  city  of  one

     8  million  or  more  inhabitants  shall, pursuant to rules and regulations
     9  promulgated by the chancellor of such city school district and  consist-
    10  ent  with  section twenty-eight hundred one-a of this chapter, implement
    11  an emergency alert notification  system  to  convey  timely  information
    12  concerning  emergency incidents or occurrences, as defined by such chan-
    13  cellor, that pose an imminent threat  to  the  health  or  safety  of  a
    14  substantial number of students, faculty and staff at a particular educa-
    15  tional  facility  or program.   Such emergency alert notification system
    16  shall employ a variety of communication methods including the  automated
    17  delivery  of text messages, phone calls and/or electronic mail and shall

    18  notify and advise parents or  persons  in  parental  relation,  faculty,
    19  staff,  and  elected representatives, who volunteer to receive emergency
    20  alert notifications.
    21    § 3. 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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