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                                  5258--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, BUTTENSCHON, McDONOUGH -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee
   on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing site mapping
   for emergency response data relating to school safety plans
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph and paragraph c of subdivision  3  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 building level emergency response plan, developed by  the  building-
 level  emergency  response  team  defined  in  subdivision  four of this
 section, shall be kept confidential, including but not  limited  to  the
 [floor plans, blueprints, schematics or other maps of the school interi-
 or,  school  grounds  and  road maps of the immediate surrounding area,]
 SITE MAPPING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE DESCRIBED IN  PARAGRAPH  C  OF  THIS
 SUBDIVISION  and  shall not be disclosed except to authorized department
 or school staff, and law enforcement officers,  and  shall  include  the
 following elements:
   c.  SITE  MAPPING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE, INCLUDING floor plans, blue-
 prints, schematics or other maps of the school interior, school  grounds
 and road maps of the immediate surrounding area. SUCH SITE MAPS SHALL BE
 PROVIDED  IN  A FORMAT COMPATIBLE WITH SOFTWARE PLATFORMS USED BY LOCAL,
 STATE,  COUNTY, AND FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES THAT PROVIDE  EMER-
 GENCY  SERVICES  TO  THE  SPECIFIC SCHOOL FOR WHICH THE DATA IS PROVIDED
 WITHOUT REQUIRING LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL  SOFT-
 WARE  OR  REQUIRING  THE INTEGRATION OF THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE TO VIEW THE
 DATA, AND COMPATIBLE WITH SECURITY SOFTWARE  PLATFORMS  IN  USE  BY  THE
 SPECIFIC  SCHOOL  FOR  WHICH THE DATA IS PROVIDED WITHOUT REQUIRING SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08107-08-3
              

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 SCHOOL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL  SOFTWARE  OR
 REQUIRING THE INTEGRATION OF THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE TO VIEW THE DATA. SUCH
 SITE  MAPS SHALL BE PROVIDED IN A PRINTABLE FORMAT, ORIENTED TRUE NORTH,
 BE  OVERLAID  WITH GRIDDED X/Y COORDINATES, AND BE VERIFIED FOR ACCURACY
 THROUGH AN INITIAL AND ANNUAL WALKTHROUGH OF ALL  SCHOOL  BUILDINGS  AND
 GROUNDS. DISTRICTS SHALL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO PROVIDE:
   I.  UP-TO-DATE  FLOOR  PLANS  OVERLAID  ON CURRENT AERIAL IMAGERY OF A
 SCHOOL BUILDING AND GROUPS;
   II. SITE SPECIFIC LABELING THAT MATCHES THE STRUCTURE  OF  THE  SCHOOL
 BUILDING,  INCLUDING BUILDING ACCESS POINTS, ROOM LABELS, HALLWAY NAMES,
 EXTERNAL DOOR OR STAIRWELL NUMBERS, LOCATIONS OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND
 UTILITY SHUT OFFS, KEY BOXES,  AUTOMATED  EXTERNAL  DEFIBRILLATORS,  AND
 TRAUMA KITS; AND
   III. SITE SPECIFIC LABELING THAT MATCHES THE SCHOOL GROUNDS, INCLUDING
 PARKING AREAS, ATHLETIC FIELDS, SURROUNDING ROADS, AND NEIGHBORING PROP-
 ERTIES.
   §  2.  Section  2801-a of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION,  "SITE  MAPPING  FOR  EMERGENCY
 RESPONSE"  MEANS INFORMATION PROVIDED IN AN ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL FORMAT
 TO ASSIST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDERS IN AN EMERGENCY.
   § 3. Subdivision 6-c of section 3602 of the education law, as  amended
 by  chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, and paragraph b as amended by section
 9 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   6-c.  a.  Building  aid  for metal detectors, [and] safety devices for
 electrically operated partitions, room  dividers  and  doors,  AND  SITE
 MAPPING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE.  In addition to the apportionments paya-
 ble  to  a  school district pursuant to subdivision six of this section,
 the commissioner  is  hereby  authorized  to  apportion  to  any  school
 district  additional  building  aid pursuant to this subdivision for its
 approved expenditures in the base year for the  purchase  of  stationary
 metal detectors, security cameras, safety devices for electrically oper-
 ated  partitions  and  room  dividers  required pursuant to section four
 hundred nine-f of this chapter, or other security  devices  approved  by
 the commissioner that increase the safety of students and school person-
 nel,  AND FOR FURNISHING SITE MAPPING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE AS REQUIRED
 BY SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED ONE-A OF THIS
 CHAPTER, provided, however, that funds apportioned to  school  districts
 pursuant  to this section shall not supplant funds for existing district
 expenditures or for existing contractual obligations of the district for
 stationary metal detectors, security cameras, partition and room divider
 safety devices, [or] security devices, OR  SITE  MAPPING  FOR  EMERGENCY
 RESPONSE.  Portable or [hand held] HANDHELD metal detectors shall not be
 eligible for aid pursuant to this subdivision. Such additional aid shall
 equal  the  product  of  the  building aid ratio computed for use in the
 current year pursuant to paragraph c of subdivision six of this  section
 and  the actual approved expenditures incurred in the base year pursuant
 to this subdivision, provided that the limitations  on  cost  allowances
 prescribed  by  paragraph a of subdivision six of this section shall not
 apply. The commissioner shall annually prescribe a special  cost  allow-
 ance for metal detectors, and security cameras, and the approved expend-
 itures  shall  not  exceed  such  cost allowance. The commissioner shall
 annually prescribe a special  cost  allowance  for  partition  and  room
 divider  safety  devices, and the approved expenditures shall not exceed
 such cost allowance.    THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ANNUALLY  PRESCRIBE  A
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 SPECIAL  COST ALLOWANCE FOR SITE MAPPING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AND THE
 APPROVED EXPENDITURES SHALL NOT EXCEED SUCH COST ALLOWANCE.
   b.  For  projects  approved  by the commissioner authorized to receive
 additional building aid pursuant to this subdivision for the purchase of
 stationary metal detectors, security cameras or other  security  devices
 approved  by  the  commissioner that increase the safety of students and
 school personnel, provided that for  purposes  of  this  paragraph  such
 other  security  devices shall be limited to electronic security systems
 and hardened doors, and provided  that  for  projects  approved  by  the
 commissioner  on  or  after  the first day of July two thousand thirteen
 such additional aid shall equal the product  of  (i)  the  building  aid
 ratio  computed  for  use in the current year pursuant to paragraph c of
 subdivision six of this section plus ten percentage points, except  that
 in  no  case  shall this amount exceed one hundred percent, and (ii) the
 actual approved expenditures incurred in the base year pursuant to  this
 subdivision, provided that the limitations on cost allowances prescribed
 by  paragraph  a of subdivision six of this section shall not apply, and
 provided further that any projects aided under this  paragraph  must  be
 included  in  a  district's  school  safety plan. The commissioner shall
 annually prescribe a special cost allowance  for  metal  detectors,  and
 security  cameras,  and  the approved expenditures shall not exceed such
 cost allowance.
   § 4. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have  become
 a law.