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                                   2563
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 23, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee 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
 (P)  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), (n) and (o) 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, paragraph (n) as added by chapter 298 of
 the laws of 2012, and paragraph (o) as added by chapter 804 of the  laws
 of  2022,  are  amended  and  a  new  paragraph  (p) 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[.];
   (o)  Assistance to eligible entities pursuant to article five-A of the
 cooperative corporations law to provide financing in the form of  loans,
 loan  guarantees,  and  interest  subsidy grants to subsidize loans from
 federally chartered instrumentalities  and  state  and  private  lending
 institutions  to  facilitate  the  creation  of worker cooperatives that
 promote continuation of existing micro-businesses either as a part of  a
 preexisting  business  succession of ownership plan or as AN alternative
 option if a business is being  offered  for  sale  or  transfer  by  the
 current  owner  or  the  heirs  or  estate  of a deceased owner. For the
 purposes of this section, a micro-business shall be defined as  a  busi-
 ness  with five or less full-time or full-time equivalent employees. All
 eligible entities shall be required to submit a business plan with their
 application requesting assistance[.]; AND
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   (P) 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 24 to read as follows:
   24. 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 (P) 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
 the department of education, the New York state urban development corpo-
 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.