Assembly Bill A4980

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   4980
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 10, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to training of school
   personnel in non-lethal defense skills
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  c  of  subdivision  2 of section 2801-a of the
 education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter  54  of  the
 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   c. appropriate prevention and intervention strategies such as:
   (i)  collaborative  arrangements  with state and local law enforcement
 officials, designed to ensure that  school  safety  officers  and  other
 security  personnel  are  adequately trained, including being trained to
 de-escalate potentially violent  situations,  and  are  effectively  and
 fairly recruited;
   (ii) non-violent conflict resolution training programs;
   (iii)  TRAINING  IN ALTERNATIVE   DEFENSE SKILLS FOR ALL SCHOOL STAFF,
 INCLUDING THE USE OF GEL PEPPER SPRAY, TASERS AND OTHER NON-LETHAL FORMS
 OF DEFENSE;
   (IV) peer mediation programs and youth courts; and
   [(iv)] (V) extended day and other school safety programs;
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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