Provides that annual training where a security guard is employed or contracted by a school in this state shall require the completion of school specific-training.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5079--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. O'PHARROW, TAPIA, STECK, TAYLOR, LUCAS, DAIS,
HOOKS, MEEKS, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, ANDERSON, DURSO, K. BROWN, LUNSFORD
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law and the executive law, in
relation to school security guards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 89-n of the general
2 business law, as added by chapter 336 of the laws of 1992, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 d. an eight hour annual in-service training course, provided that
5 where a security guard is employed or contracted by a school in this
6 state, such annual in-service training course shall require the
7 completion of school-specific training, including, but not limited to,
8 role and responsibility of school security guards, school-related laws
9 and liability, security awareness in the educational environment, youth
10 mediation/conflict resolution, disasters and emergencies, dynamics of
11 student behavior and cultural awareness, restorative practices, crisis
12 prevention, and the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA). Such school-
13 specific training shall be designed and enforced by the department, in
14 consultation with the department of education and the department of
15 criminal justice services, the division of homeland security, state
16 police and local law enforcement and shall be standardized and approved
17 statewide; and
18 § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 841 of the executive law, as amended by
19 section 6 of part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
20 read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 7. Consult with and cooperate with other departments and agencies of
2 the state concerned with police officer, school security guard, and
3 peace officer training;
4 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
5 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
6 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
7 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
8 completed on or before such effective date.
