Assembly Bill A703

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to grants to cover the costs of school resource officers and authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities to provide school resource officers

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A703 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3641 & 1950, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10601
2023-2024: A1526

2025-A703 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the provision of grants to eligible school districts to cover the costs of school resource officers employed at schools in such districts; authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities to provide school resource officers.

2025-A703 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    703
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to grants  to  cover  the
   costs  of  school  resource officers and authorizing boards of cooper-
   ative educational services to enter into contracts with  local  police
   entities to provide school resource officers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3641 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
   18.    SCHOOL  RESOURCE OFFICER GRANT. A. FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 FIVE--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX SCHOOL YEAR AND SUBSEQUENT  SCHOOL  YEARS,
 ELIGIBLE  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  SHALL  RECEIVE  GRANTS  IN AID EQUAL TO ONE
 HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE COMBINED ANNUAL SALARIES PAID TO SCHOOL  RESOURCE
 OFFICERS EMPLOYED AT SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT.
   B.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER"
 SHALL MEAN A SCHOOL RESOURCE  OFFICER,  SCHOOL  SAFETY  OFFICER,  SCHOOL
 SECURITY  OFFICER,  SCHOOL  POLICE  OFFICER,  OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANTIALLY
 SIMILAR POSITION OR OFFICE, THAT IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE IMPROVED  PUBLIC
 SAFETY  AND/OR  SECURITY ON SCHOOL GROUNDS. SUCH SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER
 MAY BE A RETIRED POLICE OFFICER, A  RETIRED  STATE  TROOPER,  A  RETIRED
 DEPUTY  SHERIFF,  A  STATE  TROOPER, A POLICE OFFICER IN THE ACTIVE DUTY
 SERVICE OF A TOWN, CITY OR VILLAGE, OR A DEPUTY SHERIFF  FROM  A  COUNTY
 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
   § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the education law
 is amended by adding a new subparagraph 14 to read as follows:
   (14)  TO  ENTER  INTO  CONTRACTS WITH LOCAL POLICE ENTITIES TO PROVIDE
 SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN  SUBDIVISION  EIGH-
 TEEN  OF  SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER, PROVIDED
 THAT THE COSTS OF SUCH SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS SHALL  BE  ELIGIBLE  FOR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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