Enacts "Alyssa's law"; authorizes school boards to include information regarding the installation of a panic alarm system in any school in the district in the district-wide safety plan; defines "panic alarm system".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
April 29, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school
boards to include information regarding the installation of a panic
alarm system in any school in the district in the district-wide safety
plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 "Alyssa's Law".
3 § 2. Paragraph f of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the education
4 law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of
5 2016, is amended to read as follows:
6 f. policies and procedures relating to school building security,
7 including where appropriate the use of school safety officers and/or
8 security devices or procedures. District-wide school safety teams shall
9 consider, as part of its reviews of the comprehensive district-wide
10 safety plan, the installation of a panic alarm system. For purposes of
11 this paragraph, "panic alarm system" shall mean a silent security system
12 signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal
13 a life-threatening or emergency situation requiring a response from
14 local law enforcement or, in the case of a school building located in a
15 municipality in which there is no municipal police department, a
16 location designated by the superintendent of state police and may
17 include one or more of the following: wired panic button or buttons,
18 wireless panic button or buttons or a mobile or computer application;
19 § 3. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section 2801-a of the education
20 law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of
21 2016, is amended to read as follows:
22 d. establishment of internal and external communication systems in
23 emergencies which may include the installation of a panic alarm system;
24 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately,
25 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
26 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
27 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11301-05-2
