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                                   5705
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 13, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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 including bus  drivers
   and  monitors as school personnel for policies and procedures concern-
   ing school safety plans

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs a, b, and g of subdivision 2 of section 2801-a
 of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of
 the laws of 2016, are amended to read as follows:
   a. policies and procedures for responding to implied or direct threats
 of violence by students, teachers, other school personnel INCLUDING  BUS
 DRIVERS  AND  MONITORS,  as  well  as  visitors to the school, including
 threats by students against themselves, which for the purposes  of  this
 section shall include suicide;
   b.  policies  and  procedures  for  responding  to acts of violence by
 students, teachers, other school personnel  INCLUDING  BUS  DRIVERS  AND
 MONITORS,  as well as visitors to the school, including consideration of
 zero-tolerance policies for school violence;
   g. policies and procedures for the dissemination of informative  mate-
 rials  regarding  the  early detection of potentially violent behaviors,
 including but not limited to the identification of family, community and
 environmental factors, to  teachers,  administrators,  school  personnel
 INCLUDING  BUS  DRIVERS  AND  MONITORS,  persons in parental relation to
 students of the district, students and other persons deemed  appropriate
 to receive such information;
   §  2. Subdivision 4 of section 2801-a of the education law, as amended
 by section 1 of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   4.  Each  district-wide  school  safety team shall be appointed by the
 board of education, or the chancellor in the case  of  the  city  school
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 district  of  the city of New York, and shall include but not be limited
 to representatives of the  school  board,  teacher,  administrator,  and
 parent  organizations, school safety personnel, and other school person-
 nel  INCLUDING  BUS DRIVERS AND MONITORS. At the discretion of the board
 of education, or the chancellor in the case of the city of New  York,  a
 student  may  be  allowed  to  participate  on the safety team, provided
 however, that no portion  of  a  confidential  building-level  emergency
 response  plan  shall be shared with such student nor shall such student
 be present where details  of  a  confidential  building-level  emergency
 response  plan  or  confidential  portions  of a district-wide emergency
 response strategy are discussed. Each building-level emergency  response
 team  shall  be  appointed by the building principal, in accordance with
 regulations or guidelines prescribed by the board of education, chancel-
 lor or other governing body. Such building-level teams shall include but
 not be limited to representatives of teacher, administrator, and  parent
 organizations,  school  safety  personnel  and  other  school  personnel
 INCLUDING BUS DRIVERS AND MONITORS, community members,  law  enforcement
 officials,  fire officials or other emergency response agencies, and any
 other representatives  the  board  of  education,  chancellor  or  other
 governing body deems appropriate.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.