STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7658 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GJONAJ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school safety plans The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 5, 6 and 8 and paragraphs d, e and j of 2 subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the education law, as amended by 3 section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, are amended to 4 read as follows: 5 1. The board of education or trustees, as defined in section two of 6 this chapter, of every school district within the state, however 7 created, and every board of cooperative educational services and county 8 vocational education and extension board and the chancellor of the city 9 school district of the city of New York shall adopt and amend a compre- 10 hensive district-wide school safety plan and building-level emergency 11 response plans regarding crisis intervention, emergency response and 12 management, provided that in the city school district of the city of New 13 York, such plans shall be adopted by the chancellor of the city school 14 district. Such plans shall be developed by a district-wide school safety 15 team and a building-level emergency response team established pursuant 16 to subdivision four of this section and shall be in a form developed by 17 the commissioner in consultation with the division of criminal justice 18 services, the superintendent of the state police and any other appropri- 19 ate state agencies. The commissioner, in consultation with the super- 20 intendent of the state police, is authorized to develop an appeals proc- 21 ess from duplicative requirements of a district-wide school safety plan 22 for school districts having only one school building. Each district- 23 wide school safety plan and building-level emergency response plan shall 24 be made available, on all school websites, to parents, guardians or 25 persons in parental relation to a student and shall be provided in every EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11155-02-7

A. 7658 2 1 language which is spoken by five percent or more of the student body in 2 the district. 3 d. policies and procedures [~~for~~] which require the contacting of 4 appropriate law enforcement officials in the event of a violent incident 5 or the threat of a violent incident; 6 e. policies and procedures [~~for~~] which require the contacting of 7 parents, guardians or persons in parental relation to the students of 8 the district in the event of a violent incident or the threat of a 9 violent incident and policies and procedures for contacting parents, 10 guardians or persons in parental relation to an individual student of 11 the district in the event of an implied or direct threat of violence by 12 such student against themselves, which for purposes of this section 13 shall include suicide; 14 j. strategies for improving communication among students and between 15 students and staff, health issue templates provided by the department 16 along with a guide on how to address them with students and reporting of 17 potentially violent incidents or the threat of potentially violent inci- 18 dents, such as the establishment of youth-run programs, peer mediation, 19 conflict resolution, creating a forum or designating a mentor for 20 students concerned with bullying or violence and establishing anonymous 21 reporting mechanisms for school violence; 22 5. The district-wide safety plan and building-level emergency response 23 plans shall be reviewed by the appropriate team on at least an annual 24 basis [~~and~~] updated as needed and in place before the beginning of each 25 school year. 26 6. Each board of education, chancellor or other governing body shall 27 make each district-wide safety plan available for public comment at 28 least [~~thirty~~] forty-five days prior to its adoption. Such district- 29 wide plans may be adopted by the school board only after at least one 30 public hearing that provides for the participation of school personnel, 31 parents, students and any other interested parties. Each district shall 32 provide adequate notice of such opportunity for public comment through 33 the use of flyers and individual school websites. Each district shall 34 file a copy of its district-wide safety plan with the commissioner and 35 all amendments to such plan shall be filed with the commissioner no 36 later than thirty days after their adoption. Within thirty days from the 37 final day of each school year, each school district shall provide the 38 department with a report, broken down by each individual school, detail- 39 ing involvement by parents, guardians or persons in parental relation to 40 a student in the safety plans adopted and including all incidents in 41 which the plan was used. 42 8. The commissioner shall annually report to the governor and the 43 legislature on the implementation and compliance with the provisions of 44 this section and shall send out notifications to all stakeholders 45 informing them that the safety plan implemented for that year in each 46 district has gone through the steps required by this section and has 47 been certified by the department and the New York state police. 48 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 49 have become a law.

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