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A04980 Summary:

BILL NOA04980 

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SPONSORDiPietro

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Adds training of school personnel in non-lethal defense skills to requirements for school safety plans.

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BILL NOA04980 

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02/10/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4980

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 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:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the
 2 education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the
 3 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
 4 c. appropriate prevention and intervention strategies such as:
 5 (i) collaborative arrangements with state and local law enforcement
 6 officials, designed to ensure that school safety officers and other
 7 security personnel are adequately trained, including being trained to
 8 de-escalate potentially violent situations, and are effectively and
 9 fairly recruited;
 10 (ii) non-violent conflict resolution training programs;
 11 (iii) training in alternative defense skills for all school staff,
 12 including the use of gel pepper spray, tasers and other non-lethal forms
 13 of defense;
 14 (iv) peer mediation programs and youth courts; and
 15 [(iv)] (v) extended day and other school safety programs;
 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 17 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.
 LBD07264-01-5

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