STATE OF NEW YORK
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9290
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring silent
alarms to be installed in all school classrooms
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 409-o
2 to read as follows:
3 § 409-o. Silent alarms in classrooms. 1. For the purposes of this
4 section, the term "silent alarm" shall mean a security system with a
5 button that, when pressed, alerts local law enforcement and school
6 administrators that an emergency situation is occurring or imminent, but
7 that does not otherwise make an audible alert or sound.
8 2. The board of education or trustees of every school district or, in
9 the case of the city school district of New York, the chancellor, and
10 every board of cooperative educational services, charter school and
11 nonpublic school within the state shall cause a silent alarm to be
12 installed in every classroom in a location readily accessible to teach-
13 ers.
14 § 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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