NY State Senate Bill 2019-S4254

Senate Bill S4254

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes educational institutions to pay the salaries and compensation of school resource officers

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 08, 2020	referred to local government
Jun 20, 2019	committed to rules
Jun 03, 2019	advanced to third reading
May 30, 2019	2nd report cal.
May 29, 2019	1st report cal.935
Mar 05, 2019	referred to local government

Votes

- May 29, 2019 - Local Government Committee Vote
  S4254
  
  7
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Local Government Committee Vote: May 29, 2019
      
      aye (7)
      
      Amedore
      
      Brooks
      
      Gaughran
      
      Harckham
      
      Metzger
      
      Ritchie
      
      Skoufis

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2019-S4254 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6750
Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:: Add §208-i, Gen Muni L

2019-S4254 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes educational institutions to agree to pay for all or a portion of the salaries and compensation payable to municipal school resource officers.

2019-S4254 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4254

SPONSOR: MARTINEZ
 
PURPOSE:

To increase the number of school resource officers across New York

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section I. Amend the general municipal law to allow school districts to
enter into an intermunicipal agreement with a local police department to
pay for all or a portion of school resource officers when the agreement
results in an increase of school resource officers.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation would authorize school districts to enter into munici-
pal agreements to pay the salaries of school resource officers.  School
resource officers receive special training to deal with various school
issues and interact with students. School resource officers play a crit-
ical role in counseling school children, providing educational programs,

such as drug and gang prevention, and increasing school safety.

Unfortunately, police departments are often only able to provide a
limited number of active duty officers to serve as school resource offi-
cers. Rarely do school districts have a full time resource officer
assigned to one school, and in some cases an officer may serve multiple
school districts and multiple schools within a district. When school
resource officers have the time to integrate into a single school
system, community relationships are built and school violence is
reduced.

This legislation will increase the number of school resource officers in
a municipality as agreements can only be entered where the result is a
net result in school resource officers.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

None.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately

2019-S4254 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4254
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 5, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  authorizing
   educational  institutions  to  pay  the  salaries  and compensation of
   school resource officers

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
 section 208-i to read as follows:
   § 208-I. SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. THE DULY CONSTITUTED AUTHORITIES OF
 ANY CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE OR ANY COUNTY  POLICE  DEPARTMENT  OR  POLICE
 DISTRICT  MAY  DESIGNATE, AUTHORIZE AND APPOINT SUCH A NUMBER OF PERSONS
 AS SUCH AUTHORITY SHALL DEEM NECESSARY, AND AT  SUCH  SALARIES  AS  SUCH
 AUTHORITY  SHALL  DEEM  ADVISABLE, AS SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS TO AID IN
 PROTECTING SCHOOL CHILDREN. A BOARD OF EDUCATION OR TRUSTEES OF A SCHOOL
 DISTRICT MAY ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH ANY  CITY,  TOWN,  VILLAGE  OR
 COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT OR POLICE DISTRICT WHEREBY SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT
 PAYS FOR ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE SALARIES OF THE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFI-
 CERS PROVIDING SERVICES PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION TO THE STUDENTS OF SUCH
 DISTRICT.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO THIS
 SECTION, SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED  EMPLOYEES  OF
 THE  SCHOOL DISTRICT.  THE AUTHORITY OF A BOARD OF EDUCATION OR TRUSTEES
 OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ENTER INTO SUCH AGREEMENT SHALL ONLY EXIST  WHEN
 SUCH  AGREEMENT  RESULTS IN AN INCREASE TO THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL RESOURCE
 OFFICERS EMPLOYED BY THE CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE, COUNTY  POLICE  DEPARTMENT
 OR POLICE DISTRICT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10121-02-9

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