Add §115, Ed L; amd §16-m, UDC Act; amd §837, Exec L
Establishes the school district cyber crime prevention services program to provide school districts with information on strategies, best practices and programs offering training and assistance in the prevention of cyber crimes in school districts or otherwise affecting school districts; provides that information on eligibility and applications for financial assistance be made available to school districts; authorizes the New York state urban development corporation to provide loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to school districts for the purpose of preventing cyber crimes against school districts.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2563
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2023
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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, the New York state urban development
corporation act and the executive law, in relation to school district
cyber crime prevention services
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. School district cyber crime prevention services program. 1.
4 There is hereby established within the department a school district
5 cyber crime prevention services program.
6 2. The school district cyber crime prevention services program,
7 directly and in conjunction with other departments and agencies of the
8 state, federal agencies or local governments, shall provide school
9 districts with access to the following services:
10 (a) information on strategies, best practices and programs offering
11 training and assistance in the prevention of cyber crimes in school
12 districts or otherwise affecting school districts, including, but not
13 limited to: hacking, phishing and the use of viruses, malware and DoS
14 attacks;
15 (b) information on eligibility and applications for financial assist-
16 ance for school district cyber crime prevention services under paragraph
17 (p) of subdivision one of section sixteen-m of section one of chapter
18 one hundred seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-eight;
19 (c) information on eligibility and applications for other programs of
20 financial assistance for school district cyber crime prevention that may
21 from time to time be available from the state, federal agencies or local
22 governments;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) information on protecting the assets of school districts from
2 cyber crime, including risk reduction strategies and insurance avail-
3 ability; and
4 (e) information on responses to cyber crime, including reporting of
5 cyber crimes, submitting insurance claims and cyber crime victim assist-
6 ance programs.
7 3. The school district cyber crime prevention services program shall,
8 with the assistance of other appropriate state agencies, identify issues
9 relating to cyber crime affecting school districts and assist the
10 department in making recommendations for legislative, regulatory and
11 programmatic actions to address such issues.
12 § 2. Paragraphs (m), (n) and (o) of subdivision 1 of section 16-m of
13 section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New York
14 state urban development corporation act, paragraph (m) as added by chap-
15 ter 467 of the laws of 2011, paragraph (n) as added by chapter 298 of
16 the laws of 2012, and paragraph (o) as added by chapter 804 of the laws
17 of 2022, are amended and a new paragraph (p) is added to read as
18 follows:
19 (m) Assistance to businesses that conduct basic, applied or transla-
20 tional research that leads to the development of products that improve
21 human health or agriculture and that require approval by the federal
22 food and drug administration, in order to create or expand facilities,
23 in accordance with good manufacturing practice regulations, that will
24 create or retain more than fifty jobs. For purposes of this paragraph,
25 good manufacturing practice regulations refers to those regulations
26 promulgated by the United States Food and Drug Administration under the
27 authority of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act[.];
28 (n) Loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to busi-
29 nesses, municipalities, industrial development agencies and local and
30 regional economic development corporations, not-for-profit corporations,
31 business improvement districts, regional marketing authorities and agri-
32 cultural cooperatives organized pursuant to the cooperative corporations
33 law, and other entities for the construction, reconstruction, improve-
34 ment, expansion or rehabilitation of wholesale regional farmers' markets
35 or food hubs that facilitate the sale and promotion of farm products
36 grown or produced in New York state.
37 For the purposes of this paragraph a wholesale regional farmers'
38 market or food hub is a market, business or organization that actively
39 manages the aggregation, distribution and marketing of source-identified
40 food products primarily from local or regional producers to satisfy
41 wholesale, retail and institutional demand for such products[.];
42 (o) Assistance to eligible entities pursuant to article five-A of the
43 cooperative corporations law to provide financing in the form of loans,
44 loan guarantees, and interest subsidy grants to subsidize loans from
45 federally chartered instrumentalities and state and private lending
46 institutions to facilitate the creation of worker cooperatives that
47 promote continuation of existing micro-businesses either as a part of a
48 preexisting business succession of ownership plan or as an alternative
49 option if a business is being offered for sale or transfer by the
50 current owner or the heirs or estate of a deceased owner. For the
51 purposes of this section, a micro-business shall be defined as a busi-
52 ness with five or less full-time or full-time equivalent employees. All
53 eligible entities shall be required to submit a business plan with their
54 application requesting assistance[.]; and
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1 (p) Loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to school
2 districts for the purpose of preventing cyber crime against school
3 districts.
4 § 3. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
5 subdivision 24 to read as follows:
6 24. Provide advice and assistance to the department of education in
7 developing and operating a program of school district cyber crime
8 prevention services pursuant to section one hundred fifteen of the
9 education law, and provide advice and assistance to the urban develop-
10 ment corporation in the development of the program of school district
11 cyber crime prevention assistance pursuant to paragraph (p) of subdivi-
12 sion one of section sixteen-m of section one of chapter one hundred
13 seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-eight.
14 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
15 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
16 the department of education, the New York state urban development corpo-
17 ration and the division of criminal justice services shall be immediate-
18 ly authorized to take any and all actions necessary to fully implement
19 the provisions of this act on such date; and provided further that the
20 amendments to section 16-m of the urban development corporation act made
21 by section two of this act shall not affect the expiration of such
22 section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
