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                                  7003

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 8, 2020
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Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, the New York state urban  development
  corporation  act and the executive law, in relation to school district
  cyber crime prevention services

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 115 to
read as follows:
  §  115.  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  CYBER CRIME PREVENTION SERVICES PROGRAM. 1.
THERE IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED WITHIN  THE  DEPARTMENT  A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT
CYBER CRIME PREVENTION SERVICES PROGRAM.
  2.  THE  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  CYBER  CRIME  PREVENTION  SERVICES PROGRAM,
DIRECTLY AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES  OF  THE
STATE,  FEDERAL  AGENCIES  OR  LOCAL  GOVERNMENTS,  SHALL PROVIDE SCHOOL
DISTRICTS WITH ACCESS TO THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:
  (A) INFORMATION ON STRATEGIES, BEST PRACTICES  AND  PROGRAMS  OFFERING
TRAINING  AND  ASSISTANCE  IN  THE  PREVENTION OF CYBER CRIMES IN SCHOOL
DISTRICTS OR OTHERWISE AFFECTING SCHOOL DISTRICTS,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
LIMITED  TO:  HACKING,  PHISHING AND THE USE OF VIRUSES, MALWARE AND DOS
ATTACKS;
  (B) INFORMATION ON ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL  ASSIST-
ANCE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT CYBER CRIME PREVENTION SERVICES UNDER PARAGRAPH
(O)  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE OF SECTION SIXTEEN-M OF SECTION ONE OF CHAPTER
ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE LAWS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT;
  (C) INFORMATION ON ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATIONS FOR OTHER PROGRAMS  OF
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT CYBER CRIME PREVENTION THAT MAY
FROM TIME TO TIME BE AVAILABLE FROM THE STATE, FEDERAL AGENCIES OR LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS;
  (D)  INFORMATION  ON  PROTECTING  THE  ASSETS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM
CYBER CRIME, INCLUDING RISK REDUCTION STRATEGIES  AND  INSURANCE  AVAIL-
ABILITY; AND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (E)  INFORMATION  ON  RESPONSES TO CYBER CRIME, INCLUDING REPORTING OF
CYBER CRIMES, SUBMITTING INSURANCE CLAIMS AND CYBER CRIME VICTIM ASSIST-
ANCE PROGRAMS.
  3.  THE SCHOOL DISTRICT CYBER CRIME PREVENTION SERVICES PROGRAM SHALL,
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF OTHER APPROPRIATE STATE AGENCIES, IDENTIFY ISSUES
RELATING TO CYBER  CRIME  AFFECTING  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  AND  ASSIST  THE
DEPARTMENT  IN  MAKING  RECOMMENDATIONS  FOR LEGISLATIVE, REGULATORY AND
PROGRAMMATIC ACTIONS TO ADDRESS SUCH ISSUES.
  § 2. Paragraphs (m) and (n)  of  subdivision  1  of  section  16-m  of
section  1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New York
state urban development corporation act, paragraph (m) as added by chap-
ter 467 of the laws of 2011 and paragraph (n) as added by chapter 298 of
the laws of 2012, are amended and a new paragraph (o) is added  to  read
as follows:
  (m)  Assistance  to businesses that conduct basic, applied or transla-
tional research that leads to the development of products  that  improve
human  health  or  agriculture  and that require approval by the federal
food and drug administration, in order to create or  expand  facilities,
in  accordance  with  good manufacturing practice regulations, that will
create or retain more than fifty jobs. For purposes of  this  paragraph,
good  manufacturing  practice  regulations  refers  to those regulations
promulgated by the United States Food and Drug Administration under  the
authority of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act[.];
  (n)  Loans,  loan  guarantees,  interest subsidies and grants to busi-
nesses, municipalities, industrial development agencies  and  local  and
regional economic development corporations, not-for-profit corporations,
business improvement districts, regional marketing authorities and agri-
cultural cooperatives organized pursuant to the cooperative corporations
law,  and  other entities for the construction, reconstruction, improve-
ment, expansion or rehabilitation of wholesale regional farmers' markets
or food hubs that facilitate the sale and  promotion  of  farm  products
grown or produced in New York state.
  For  the  purposes  of  this  paragraph  a wholesale regional farmers'
market or food hub is a market, business or organization  that  actively
manages the aggregation, distribution and marketing of source-identified
food  products  primarily  from  local  or regional producers to satisfy
wholesale, retail and institutional demand for such products[.]; AND
  (O) LOANS, LOAN GUARANTEES, INTEREST SUBSIDIES AND  GRANTS  TO  SCHOOL
DISTRICTS  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  PREVENTING  CYBER CRIME AGAINST SCHOOL
DISTRICTS.
  § 3. Section 837 of the executive law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
subdivision 22 to read as follows:
  22.  PROVIDE  ADVICE  AND ASSISTANCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IN
DEVELOPING AND OPERATING  A  PROGRAM  OF  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  CYBER  CRIME
PREVENTION  SERVICES  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED FIFTEEN OF THE
EDUCATION LAW, AND PROVIDE ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO THE  URBAN  DEVELOP-
MENT  CORPORATION  IN  THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROGRAM OF SCHOOL DISTRICT
CYBER CRIME PREVENTION ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (O) OF  SUBDIVI-
SION  ONE  OF  SECTION  SIXTEEN-M  OF SECTION ONE OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE LAWS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT.
  § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
the  date  on  which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
the department of education, the New York state urban development corpo-
ration and the division of criminal justice services shall be immediate-
ly authorized to take any and all actions necessary to  fully  implement
the  provisions  of this act on such date; and provided further that the

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amendments to section 16-m of the urban development corporation act made
by section two of this act shall  not  affect  the  expiration  of  such
section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.