Assembly Bill A6605

                             
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                                   6605
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  allowing  school
   districts to hire school resource officers with aidable salary; and to
   amend  the  retirement  and social security law, in relation to annual
   earnings limitations for retired police officers  employed  as  school
   resource officers
 
   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  2805
 to read as follows:
   § 2805. SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,
 THE TERM "SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER" SHALL MEAN A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER,
 SCHOOL  SAFETY  OFFICER,  SCHOOL SECURITY OFFICER, OR ANY OTHER SUBSTAN-
 TIALLY 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.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE, OR REGULATION TO
 THE CONTRARY THE GOVERNING BOARD OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL  BE  AUTHOR-
 IZED,  UPON  APPROVAL  OF THE COMMISSIONER, TO EMPLOY ONE OR MORE SCHOOL
 RESOURCE OFFICERS FOR EACH SCHOOL IN SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT, PROVIDED THAT
 THE COSTS OF SUCH SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS SHALL BE AIDABLE PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION  THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED  NINE-A OF THIS CHAPTER, TO THE SAME EXTENT
 AND ON THE SAME BASIS  AS  COSTS  OTHERWISE  ALLOCATED  TO  SUCH  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT.
   3.  A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER MAY BE REQUESTED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
 TWO OF THIS SECTION BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR UP TO  SIX  DAYS  PER  WEEK
 THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04634-01-5
              

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   §  2. Section 212 of the retirement and social security law is amended
 by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF THIS
 SECTION, SUCH ANNUAL EARNINGS LIMITATIONS FOR A RETIRED  POLICE  OFFICER
 EMPLOYED  BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN EITHER THE CLASSIFIED OR UNCLASSIFIED
 SERVICE AS A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER, AS DEFINED BY SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT
 HUNDRED FIVE OF THE EDUCATION LAW, OR ANY  OTHER  SUBSTANTIALLY  SIMILAR
 POSITION OR OFFICE THAT IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE SAFETY AND/OR SECURITY ON
 SCHOOL GROUNDS, PROVIDED THAT SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER IS DULY QUALI-
 FIED,  COMPETENT AND PHYSICALLY FIT FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES OF THE
 POSITION IN WHICH SUCH RETIRED POLICE  OFFICER  IS  TO  BE  EMPLOYED  AS
 DETERMINED  BY  THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND IS PROPERLY CERTIFIED WHERE SUCH
 CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED, SHALL BE FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE  YEAR
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX AND THEREAFTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.