S 4241: Requires a principal, superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4241 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a principal, superintendent or a principal's or superintendent's designee to notify law enforcement if they believe a hate crime is occurring The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph i of subdivision 1 of section 13 of the education 2 law, as added by chapter 102 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 i. require the principal, superintendent or the principal's or super- 5 intendent's designee, to notify promptly the appropriate local law 6 enforcement agency when such principal, superintendent or the princi- 7 pal's or superintendent's designee, believes that any harassment, bully- 8 ing or discrimination constitutes criminal conduct. Where the principal, 9 superintendent or the principal's or superintendent's designee believes 10 that any harassment, bullying or discrimination constitutes a hate 11 crime, as defined in subdivision one of section 485.05 of the penal law, 12 prompt notification to the appropriate local law enforcement agency 13 shall occur within forty-eight hours from the time such principal, 14 superintendent or the principal's or superintendent's designee believes 15 that such harassment, bullying or discrimination constitutes a hate 16 crime; 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07907-01-5