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                                    902
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, BUTTENSCHON, McDONOUGH -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Education
 
 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
 SCHOOL  AND  LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE OR
 REQUIRING THE INTEGRATION OF THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE TO VIEW THE DATA. SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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
 SPECIAL  COST ALLOWANCE FOR SITE MAPPING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AND THE
 APPROVED EXPENDITURES SHALL NOT EXCEED SUCH COST ALLOWANCE.
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   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.