Requires a principal, superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6367
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 requiring a principal,
superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify
law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph i of subdivision 1 of section 13 of the education
2 law, as added by chapter 102 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 i. require the principal, superintendent or the principal's or super-
5 intendent's designee, to notify promptly the appropriate local law
6 enforcement agency when such principal, superintendent or the princi-
7 pal's or superintendent's designee, believes that any harassment, bully-
8 ing or discrimination constitutes criminal conduct. Where the principal,
9 superintendent or the principal's or superintendent's designee believes
10 that any harassment, bullying or discrimination constitutes a hate
11 crime, as defined in subdivision one of section 485.05 of the penal law,
12 prompt notification to the appropriate local law enforcement agency
13 shall occur within forty-eight hours from the time such principal,
14 superintendent or the principal's or superintendent's designee believes
15 that such harassment, bullying or discrimination constitutes a hate
16 crime;
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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