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                                   4180
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 10, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to establish the "make our schools safer" commission  to  produce
   protocols  on how to make schools in New York safer from school shoot-
   ings and bombers; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
   the expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  A  commission,  to be known as the make our schools safer
 commission, is hereby created to produce protocols on the  effectiveness
 of  different technologies on reducing casualties in a school shooter or
 bomber event including, but not limited to, bulletproof glass and doors,
 auto locking technologies, lockdown systems and barricades. The  commis-
 sion shall also include the feasibility and cost to implement such tech-
 nology in schools.
   §  2.  The  commission  shall be composed of ten members, appointed as
 follows: two members shall be appointed by  the  governor;  two  members
 shall  be appointed by the speaker of the assembly; two members shall be
 appointed by the minority leader of the assembly; two members  shall  be
 appointed  by  the  temporary  president  of the senate; and two members
 shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate. The  commission
 shall  be  chaired  by  a  person chosen by a majority vote at the first
 meeting of the commission. The vice-chairperson of the commission  shall
 be  appointed  by  the  chairperson.  Vacancies in the membership of the
 commission shall be filled in the manner provided for original  appoint-
 ments.
   §  3.  The  commission  shall be made up of at least one member of law
 enforcement who specializes in school shooting and  bombing  events,  at
 least one teacher, at least one parent of a student at a New York public
 school,  at  least  one  school administrator, at least one engineer who
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 specializes in technologies to be studied by the commission and at least
 one engineer who specializes in schools.
   §  4.  The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for
 their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
 incurred in the performance of their duties hereunder.   To the  maximum
 extent feasible, the commission shall be entitled to request and receive
 and  shall  utilize and be provided with such facilities, resources, and
 data of any court, department, division, board, bureau,  commission,  or
 agency  of  the  state  or any political subdivision thereof as it deems
 necessary or desirable to carry out properly its powers and duties here-
 under.
   § 5. For the accomplishment of its purposes, the commission  shall  be
 authorized and empowered to undertake any studies, inquiries, surveys or
 analyses  it  may deem relevant in cooperation with or by agreement with
 any other public or private agency. The commission shall meet  and  hold
 public  hearings  or  private  meetings within or without the state, and
 shall have all the powers of a legislative  committee  pursuant  to  the
 legislative law.
   §  6. The commission shall report its findings, conclusions and recom-
 mendations to the governor and the legislature no later  than  one  year
 after the effective date of this act.
   §  7.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed two years after it shall have become a law.