Int. No. 532-A

By Council Members Brannan, Yeger, Gennaro, Abreu, Holden, Menin, Schulman, Salamanca, Narcisse, Hanks, Louis, Powers, Feliz, Dinowitz, Restler, Zhuang, Brooks-Powers, Rivera, Brewer, Lee, Krishnan, Bottcher, Joseph, Salaam, Hanif, Ariola, Paladino, Vernikov, Carr, Borelli, Marmorato, Farías and Mealy

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reimbursing small nonpublic schools for the cost of security guard services

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. The definition of “qualifying nonpublic school” set forth in subdivision a of section 10-172 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 2 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:

"Qualifying nonpublic school" means any nonprofit elementary or secondary school in the city [,] that (a) is other than (i) a [public school] school of the city school district of the city of New York, or (ii) a school that shares space with a school of the city school district of the city of New York, [which] (b) is providing instruction in accordance with the education law, (c) has been assigned a Basic Educational Data System (BEDS) code by the New York state department of education, or a similar successor identifier, [and] (d) is serving students in any combination of grades pre-kindergarten through twelve.

§ 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision f of section 10-172 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 2 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:

1. one security guard at a qualifying nonpublic school that enrolls from [300] 150 to 499 students;

§ 3. Subdivision j of section 10-172 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 2 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:

j. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this [local law] section, the total annual amount of reimbursements authorized by this section shall be a maximum of [$19,800,000] $35,000,000 dollars per school year, which shall be adjusted annually by the administering agency, if such agency anticipates that such maximum will be reached in the subsequent one-year period, to reflect changes in the prevailing wage and supplements, the number of students attending qualifying nonpublic schools, or the number of qualifying nonpublic schools, provided that such reimbursements shall in no event exceed the amounts appropriated for implementation of this section. To the extent the administering agency anticipates that the amount requested for reimbursement will exceed the funds available, the administering agency shall reimburse for allowable costs on an equitable basis until such funds are exhausted.

§ 4. Subdivision m of section 10-172 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 2 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:

m. The administering agency may promulgate any rules as may be necessary for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this section, including, but not limited to, rules (i) relating to the training of security guards, (ii) ensuring that security guards and security guard companies are appropriately qualified to provide security services to qualifying nonpublic schools, [and] (iii) providing for prompt reporting of criminal and other significant public safety-related incidents to the police department or other appropriate government agency as well as annual summary reports of such incidents, (iv) ensuring the efficient operation of the program; and (v)  requiring that a school requesting reimbursement pursuant to this section certify that such school does not use funding from the city pursuant to subparagraph (5) of paragraph (e) of subdivision (3) of section 2853 of the education law for the provision of security services during the same school year as receiving reimbursements pursuant to this section.

§ 5.   Section 10-172 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision n to read as follows:

n. Any qualifying non-public school that operates in more than one address shall be eligible for reimbursement for the allowable costs of a security guard to provide security services at each such address, provided that the eligibility requirements set forth in subdivision f are satisfied at each such address.

§ 6. This local law takes effect July 1, 2025.

Session 13

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12/11/2024

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MMB

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