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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 6, 2022
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to grants to cover the
   costs of school resource officers and authorizing  boards  of  cooper-
   ative  educational  services to enter into contracts with local police
   entities to provide school resource officers

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  3641 of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
   18.  SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER GRANT.  A. FOR THE TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 TWO--TWO  THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE SCHOOL YEAR AND SUBSEQUENT SCHOOL YEARS,
 ELIGIBLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHALL RECEIVE  GRANTS  IN  AID  EQUAL  TO  ONE
 HUNDRED  PERCENT OF THE COMBINED ANNUAL SALARIES PAID TO SCHOOL RESOURCE
 OFFICERS EMPLOYED AT SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT.
   B. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "SCHOOL  RESOURCE  OFFICER"
 SHALL  MEAN  A  SCHOOL  RESOURCE  OFFICER, SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER, SCHOOL
 SECURITY OFFICER, OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR POSITION OR OFFICE,
 THAT IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE IMPROVED PUBLIC SAFETY  AND/OR  SECURITY  ON
 SCHOOL  GROUNDS.  SUCH  SCHOOL  RESOURCE OFFICER MAY BE A RETIRED POLICE
 OFFICER, A RETIRED STATE TROOPER, A  RETIRED  DEPUTY  SHERIFF,  A  STATE
 TROOPER,  A POLICE OFFICER IN THE ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE OF A TOWN, CITY OR
 VILLAGE, OR A DEPUTY SHERIFF FROM A COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
   § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the education law
 is amended by adding a new subparagraph 14 to read as follows:
   (14) TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH LOCAL  POLICE  ENTITIES  TO  PROVIDE
 SCHOOL  RESOURCE  OFFICERS, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION EIGH-
 TEEN OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THIS  CHAPTER,  PROVIDED
 THAT  THE  COSTS  OF SUCH SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR
 GRANTS TO THE SAME EXTENT AND ON  THE  SAME  BASIS  AS  ELIGIBLE  SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION EIGHTEEN OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED
 FORTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16008-01-2