STATE OF NEW YORK
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3258
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 annual notifications
to school districts to combat cyber crime
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 115 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 115. Cyber crime notification. 1. Annually, on or before July first,
4 the department shall notify the data protection officer, director of
5 information technology or other head of data and information technology
6 services for each school district in this state. Such notification shall
7 include:
8 (a) a reminder of the strategies and best practices that are most
9 effective in combatting cyber crime; and
10 (b) a copy of the "Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure
11 Cybersecurity Version 1.1" published by the National Institute of Stand-
12 ards and Technology on April 16, 2018.
13 2. The notification required by subdivision one of this section shall
14 be delivered by email to the appropriate school district officer.
15 § 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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