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Senate Bill S4241

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires a principal, superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring

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2025-S4241 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §13, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S8199
2011-2012: S1176
2013-2014: S1640
2015-2016: S1727
2017-2018: S3649
2019-2020: S4781
2021-2022: S5076
2023-2024: S6367

2025-S4241 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a principal, superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring.

2025-S4241 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4241 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4241
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a principal,
   superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify
   law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph i of subdivision 1 of section 13 of the education
 law,  as added by chapter 102 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as
 follows:
   i. require the principal, superintendent or the principal's or  super-
 intendent's  designee,  to  notify  promptly  the  appropriate local law
 enforcement agency when such principal, superintendent  or  the  princi-
 pal's or superintendent's designee, believes that any harassment, bully-
 ing or discrimination constitutes criminal conduct. WHERE THE PRINCIPAL,
 SUPERINTENDENT  OR THE PRINCIPAL'S OR SUPERINTENDENT'S DESIGNEE BELIEVES
 THAT ANY HARASSMENT,  BULLYING  OR  DISCRIMINATION  CONSTITUTES  A  HATE
 CRIME, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 485.05 OF THE PENAL LAW,
 PROMPT  NOTIFICATION  TO  THE  APPROPRIATE  LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
 SHALL OCCUR WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT  HOURS  FROM  THE  TIME  SUCH  PRINCIPAL,
 SUPERINTENDENT  OR THE PRINCIPAL'S OR SUPERINTENDENT'S DESIGNEE BELIEVES
 THAT SUCH HARASSMENT, BULLYING  OR  DISCRIMINATION  CONSTITUTES  A  HATE
 CRIME;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07907-01-5

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