 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7599
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 29, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- 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  cyber  security
          instruction
 
          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  804-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  804-e.  Cyber security instruction. 1. Instructions regarding cyber
     4  security may be offered for voluntary admission as part of any introduc-
     5  tion to computers course, computing systems course, computer and  infor-
     6  mation technology course, computer applications course, computer litera-
     7  cy course or business computer applications course, in all schools.
     8    2.  The  commissioner,  together  with  the  director of the office of
     9  information technology services, shall provide technical  assistance  in
    10  the  development  of curricula for such courses of study, which shall be
    11  age appropriate and developed according to the needs  and  abilities  of
    12  pupils  at  successive grade levels in order to provide awareness skills
    13  and information.
    14    3. School authorities that choose to offer such courses shall  provide
    15  the  needed  facilities, time and place for the instruction set forth in
    16  this section and shall provide learning  aids  and  curriculum  resource
    17  materials to support such courses of study.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13715-01-7
Relates to cyber security instruction

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