New York A 703: 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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A00703 Summary:

BILL NOA00703 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04814

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SPONSORButtenschon

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COSPNSRSteck, Santabarbara, Stern, Burdick, Conrad, Carroll P

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§3641 & 1950, Ed L

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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.

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BILL NOA00703 

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01/08/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 703

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred 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:

 1 Section 1. Section 3641 of the education law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
 3 18. School resource officer grant. a. For the two thousand twenty-
 4 five--two thousand twenty-six school year and subsequent school years,
 5 eligible school districts shall receive grants in aid equal to one
 6 hundred percent of the combined annual salaries paid to school resource
 7 officers employed at schools in the district.
 8 b. For purposes of this section, the term "school resource officer"
 9 shall mean a school resource officer, school safety officer, school
 10 security officer, school police officer, or any other substantially
 11 similar position or office, that is designed to provide improved public
 12 safety and/or security on school grounds. Such school resource officer
 13 may be a retired police officer, a retired state trooper, a retired
 14 deputy sheriff, a state trooper, a police officer in the active duty
 15 service of a town, city or village, or a deputy sheriff from a county
 16 sheriff's department.
 17 § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the education law
 18 is amended by adding a new subparagraph 14 to read as follows:
 19 (14) To enter into contracts with local police entities to provide
 20 school resource officers, as such term is defined in subdivision eigh-
 21 teen of section thirty-six hundred forty-one of this chapter, provided
 22 that the costs of such school resource officers shall be eligible for

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02507-01-5

 A. 703 2

 1 grants to the same extent and on the same basis as eligible school
 2 districts pursuant to subdivision eighteen of section thirty-six hundred
 3 forty-one of this chapter.
 4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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