Requires school emergency response drills to include drills to respond to an active shooter, other lethal attackers, and attacks with explosives, or chemical, biological or radiological agents.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6272--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school emergency
response drills
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 [lock-down] emergency response
16 drills. Emergency response drills shall include drills to respond to an
17 active shooter or other lethal attacker at the school, or an attack
18 using explosives, biological, chemical or radiological agents. Drills
19 shall be conducted at different times of the school day, with at least
20 one of the eight required evacuation drills occurring during a mass
21 gathering event such as lunch or assemblies. Pupils shall be instructed
22 in the procedure to be followed in the event that a fire occurs during
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the 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 July 1, 2018.
