NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4814

Senate Bill S4814

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to grants to cover the costs of school resource officers and authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities to provide school resource officers

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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2025-S4814 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A703
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§3641 & 1950, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: A10601
2023-2024: S6629, A1526

2025-S4814 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the provision of grants to eligible school districts to cover the costs of school resource officers employed at schools in such districts; authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities to provide school resource officers.

2025-S4814 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4814

SPONSOR: RYAN C
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to grants to cover the
costs of school resource officers and authorizing boards of cooperative
educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities
to provide school resource officers

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this bill is to provide grants to cover the costs of
school resource officers and authorizes boards of cooperative educa-
tional services to enter into contracts with local police entities to
provide school resource officers.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of this bill would require that for the 2024-2025 school year
and subsequent school years, eligible school districts receive grants in
aid equal to one hundred percent of the combined annual salaries paid to

school resource officers, and other similar positions, employed at
schools in the district and define such eligible employees.

Section 2 of this bill would authorize a board of cooperative educa-
tional services to enter into a contract with local police entities to
provide school resource officers, provided that such officers' salary
shall be eligible for the grant salary coverage program.

Section 3 of this bill provides that this bill shall take effect imme-
diately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

School resource officers are an essential asset to school safety. With
the rise in school shootings across the nation, it is vital to have a
school resource officer or a special patrol officer in all school build-
ings throughout all school districts in New York State. These officers
are more than a security guard as they are trained and certified in law
enforcement and have specialized knowledge to help with safety planning,
school-safety policy, and most importantly emergency response prepared-
ness.

This bill seeks to alleviate budget burdens on school districts when
hiring a resource officer or special patrol officer. School districts
would be reimbursed at 100% when hiring an officer to serve and protect
the children of the State while they are at school. This bill also
creates an option for local school districts to enter into contracts
with local police entities to provide school resource officers in
schools. Families in the State should know that their children are safe
when going to school.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-24: S6629B - (Mannion) - Amended & Recommitted to Education.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S4814 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4814
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 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-
 FIVE--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX 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,  SCHOOL  POLICE  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.
                                                            LBD02507-01-5

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