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                                   4567
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, the New York state urban development
   corporation act and the executive law, in relation to school  district
   cyber crime prevention services

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 115 to
 read as follows:
   § 115. SCHOOL DISTRICT CYBER CRIME  PREVENTION  SERVICES  PROGRAM.  1.
 THERE  IS  HEREBY  ESTABLISHED  WITHIN  THE DEPARTMENT A SCHOOL DISTRICT
 CYBER CRIME PREVENTION SERVICES PROGRAM.
   2. THE  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  CYBER  CRIME  PREVENTION  SERVICES  PROGRAM,
 DIRECTLY  AND  IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES OF THE
 STATE, FEDERAL AGENCIES  OR  LOCAL  GOVERNMENTS,  SHALL  PROVIDE  SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS WITH ACCESS TO THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:
   (A)  INFORMATION  ON  STRATEGIES, BEST PRACTICES AND PROGRAMS OFFERING
 TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE IN THE PREVENTION  OF  CYBER  CRIMES  IN  SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS  OR  OTHERWISE  AFFECTING SCHOOL DISTRICTS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO: HACKING, PHISHING AND THE USE OF VIRUSES,  MALWARE  AND  DOS
 ATTACKS;
   (B)  INFORMATION ON ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL ASSIST-
 ANCE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT CYBER CRIME PREVENTION SERVICES UNDER PARAGRAPH
 (O) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION SIXTEEN-M OF SECTION  ONE  OF  CHAPTER
 ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE LAWS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT;
   (C)  INFORMATION ON ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATIONS FOR OTHER PROGRAMS OF
 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT CYBER CRIME PREVENTION THAT MAY
 FROM TIME TO TIME BE AVAILABLE FROM THE STATE, FEDERAL AGENCIES OR LOCAL
 GOVERNMENTS;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (D) INFORMATION ON PROTECTING THE  ASSETS  OF  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  FROM
 CYBER  CRIME,  INCLUDING  RISK REDUCTION STRATEGIES AND INSURANCE AVAIL-
 ABILITY; AND
   (E)  INFORMATION  ON  RESPONSES TO CYBER CRIME, INCLUDING REPORTING OF
 CYBER CRIMES, SUBMITTING INSURANCE CLAIMS AND CYBER CRIME VICTIM ASSIST-
 ANCE PROGRAMS.
   3. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT CYBER CRIME PREVENTION SERVICES PROGRAM  SHALL,
 WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF OTHER APPROPRIATE STATE AGENCIES, IDENTIFY ISSUES
 RELATING  TO  CYBER  CRIME  AFFECTING  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  AND ASSIST THE
 DEPARTMENT IN MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS  FOR  LEGISLATIVE,  REGULATORY  AND
 PROGRAMMATIC ACTIONS TO ADDRESS SUCH ISSUES.
   §  2.  Paragraphs  (m)  and  (n)  of  subdivision 1 of section 16-m of
 section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New  York
 state urban development corporation act, paragraph (m) as added by chap-
 ter 467 of the laws of 2011 and paragraph (n) as added by chapter 298 of
 the  laws  of 2012, are amended and a new paragraph (o) is added to read
 as follows:
   (m) Assistance to businesses that conduct basic, applied  or  transla-
 tional  research  that leads to the development of products that improve
 human health or agriculture and that require  approval  by  the  federal
 food  and  drug administration, in order to create or expand facilities,
 in accordance with good manufacturing practice  regulations,  that  will
 create  or  retain more than fifty jobs. For purposes of this paragraph,
 good manufacturing practice  regulations  refers  to  those  regulations
 promulgated  by the United States Food and Drug Administration under the
 authority of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act[.];
   (n) Loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies  and  grants  to  busi-
 nesses,  municipalities,  industrial  development agencies and local and
 regional economic development corporations, not-for-profit corporations,
 business improvement districts, regional marketing authorities and agri-
 cultural cooperatives organized pursuant to the cooperative corporations
 law, and other entities for the construction,  reconstruction,  improve-
 ment, expansion or rehabilitation of wholesale regional farmers' markets
 or  food  hubs  that  facilitate the sale and promotion of farm products
 grown or produced in New York state.
   For the purposes of  this  paragraph  a  wholesale  regional  farmers'
 market  or  food hub is a market, business or organization that actively
 manages the aggregation, distribution and marketing of source-identified
 food products primarily from local  or  regional  producers  to  satisfy
 wholesale, retail and institutional demand for such products[.]; AND
   (O)  LOANS,  LOAN  GUARANTEES, INTEREST SUBSIDIES AND GRANTS TO SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS FOR THE PURPOSE  OF  PREVENTING  CYBER  CRIME  AGAINST  SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS.
   §  3.  Section  837  of  the  executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 23 to read as follows:
   23. PROVIDE ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO THE DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION  IN
 DEVELOPING  AND  OPERATING  A  PROGRAM  OF  SCHOOL  DISTRICT CYBER CRIME
 PREVENTION SERVICES PURSUANT TO  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED  FIFTEEN  OF  THE
 EDUCATION  LAW,  AND PROVIDE ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO THE URBAN DEVELOP-
 MENT CORPORATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROGRAM  OF  SCHOOL  DISTRICT
 CYBER  CRIME PREVENTION ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (O) OF SUBDIVI-
 SION ONE OF SECTION SIXTEEN-M OF SECTION  ONE  OF  CHAPTER  ONE  HUNDRED
 SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE LAWS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT.
   §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law;  provided,  however,  that
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 ration and the division of criminal justice services shall be immediate-
 ly  authorized  to take any and all actions necessary to fully implement
 the provisions of this act on such date; and provided further  that  the
 amendments to section 16-m of the urban development corporation act made
 by  section  two  of  this  act  shall not affect the expiration of such
 section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.