Authorizes educational institutions to agree to pay for all or a portion of the salaries and compensation payable to municipal school resource officers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6750
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 18, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing
educational institutions to pay the salaries and compensation of
school resource officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 208-i to read as follows:
3 § 208-i. School resource officers. The duly constituted authorities of
4 any city, town, or village or any county police department or police
5 district may designate, authorize and appoint such a number of persons
6 as such authority shall deem necessary, and at such salaries as such
7 authority shall deem advisable, as school resource officers to aid in
8 protecting school children. A board of education or trustees of a school
9 district may enter into an agreement with any city, town, village or
10 county police department or police district whereby such school district
11 pays for all or any portion of the salaries of the school resource offi-
12 cers providing services pursuant to this section to the students of such
13 district. Notwithstanding any agreement entered into pursuant to this
14 section, school resource officers shall not be considered employees of
15 the school district. The authority of a board of education or trustees
16 of a school district to enter into such agreement shall only exist when
17 such agreement results in an increase to the number of school resource
18 officers employed by the city, town, village, county police department
19 or police district.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10121-02-9
