STATE OF NEW YORK
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310
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- 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 establishing active
shooter drills at public and private educational institutions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 807 of the education law, as
2 amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in charge of
5 every public or private school or educational institution within the
6 state, other than colleges or universities, to instruct and train the
7 pupils by means of drills, so that they may in a sudden emergency be
8 able to respond appropriately in the shortest possible time and without
9 confusion or panic. Such drills shall be held at least twelve times in
10 each school year, eight of which required drills shall be held between
11 September first and December thirty-first of each such year. Eight of
12 all such drills shall be evacuation drills, four of which shall be
13 through use of the fire escapes on buildings where fire escapes are
14 provided or through the use of identified secondary means of egress.
15 Four of all such required drills shall be emergency attack drills, with
16 two of such drills being lock-down drills and two of such drills being
17 active shooter drills. Upon request of the principal or other person in
18 charge of such public or private educational institution, the New York
19 state school safety improvement teams, established pursuant to section
20 twenty-eight hundred one-b of this chapter, shall provide recommenda-
21 tions on how to perform such lock-down and active shooter drills at such
22 public or private educational institution. Drills shall be conducted at
23 different times of the school day. Pupils shall be instructed in the
24 procedure to be followed in the event that a fire occurs during the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 lunch period or assembly, provided however, that such additional
2 instruction may be waived where a drill is held during the regular
3 school lunch period or assembly. Four additional drills shall be held in
4 each school year during the hours after sunset and before sunrise in
5 school buildings in which students are provided with sleeping accommo-
6 dations. At least two additional drills shall be held during summer
7 school in buildings where summer school is conducted, and one of such
8 drills shall be held during the first week of summer school.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
