Provides that within amounts appropriated, the commissioner of education is authorized and directed to award comprehensive school security grants to every public, parochial and private school in the state; makes related provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7875
IN SENATE
March 6, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 the comprehensive
school security grant program
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 411 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 411. Comprehensive school security grant program. 1. Within amounts
4 appropriated for the installation and operation of comprehensive securi-
5 ty systems in every school of the state, the commissioner is hereby
6 authorized and directed to award grants to every public, parochial and
7 private school in the state. Such grants shall be for the total capital
8 costs of quick capacity smart sensor threat detection, and 360 degree
9 security awareness including services, expenses and indirect costs.
10 Grantees receiving funding pursuant to this subdivision may expend no
11 more than five percent of grants for administration and no more than
12 five percent for grantee training.
13 2. In the event the appropriation for the purposes of this section in
14 any year is insufficient to pay all claims pursuant to this subdivision,
15 the commissioner shall pay such claims on a prorated basis among all
16 schools filing such claims until the appropriation is exhausted.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15016-01-8
