New York S 7037: Relates to enacting the "social media monitoring safety act"; appropriation

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S07037 Summary:

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Enacts the "social media monitoring safety act" to provide data analytic resources and funding to every school district to facilitate the monitoring of social media activities to provide early-detection information of possible threats to a student's health and the safety of the school; makes an appropriation therefor.

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03/31/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7037

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 31, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the social
 media monitoring safety act; and making an appropriation therefor

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "social media monitoring safety act".
 3 § 2. Legislative intent. It is the desire of this legislature to
 4 provide students and teachers with a safe environment to work and learn.
 5 It has become increasingly clear to this legislative body that protect-
 6 ing the health and welfare of its public school students is becoming
 7 increasingly difficult. This legislative body finds that the use of
 8 social media by students is increasingly being used to voice opinions
 9 and thoughts that may be harmful to students and teachers alike. There-
 10 fore, this legislative body finds it necessary to create the social
 11 media monitoring safety act to provide data analytic resources and fund-
 12 ing to every school district to facilitate the monitoring of social
 13 media activities to provide early detection information of possible
 14 threats to a student's health and the safety of the school.
 15 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 2801-a of the education law is amended
 16 by adding a new paragraph n to read as follows:
 17 n. (i) policies and procedures to provide data analytic resources
 18 which facilitate the monitoring of any and all publicly available social
 19 media activities to provide early detection information of possible
 20 threats to a student's health and the safety of the school. Such infor-
 21 mation gathered pursuant to the early detection system shall be provided
 22 to the school principal or designee and such principal or designee shall
 23 act as they deem appropriate based on the level of threat to the health
 24 and safety of the school.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11401-01-5

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 1 (ii) a school district shall not be authorized to view, retrieve, or
 2 otherwise utilize any information that is private, including but not
 3 limited to email, unless expressly authorized by a student or a court of
 4 competent jurisdiction.
 5 § 4. The sum of six million dollars ($6,000,000) is hereby appropri-
 6 ated to the state department of education out of any moneys in the state
 7 treasury in the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, and made imme-
 8 diately available, for the services and expenses of implementing the
 9 social media monitoring safety act. Such moneys shall be payable on the
 10 audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved
 11 by the department of education.
 12 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 13 it shall have become a law.

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