S 4893 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to school safety measures

Summary

Establishes the New York state school resource officer program; provides for grants for school resource officers (Part A); relates to peace officers who are retired police officers employed by a school district as a school resource officer (Part B); allows retired police officers to be employed by a school district as a school safety officer, school security officer or any other substantially similar position for an annual salary of $50,000 or less to continue to receive their full retirement benefit (Part C).

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 14, 2025 Last action Feb 5, 2026

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S4893 → S4893A · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill number was updated from S 4893 to S 4893-A, indicating it has been amended and reprinted. The legislative status was updated to reflect that the bill was discharged from committee, amended, and recommitted. The core content of the school resource officer program remains substantively unchanged, with only minor formatting adjustments to the text layout.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the changes are primarily procedural and formatting-related.

TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from S 4893 to S 4893-A to reflect amendments and recommitment to committee

Committee status updated to show bill was discharged, amended, and recommitted to the Committee on Education

Minor formatting adjustments to text layout and line breaks throughout the document

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Committee

Amendments

Feb 5, 2026

Upper · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 4893A

upper

Feb 5, 2026

Upper · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION

upper

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO EDUCATION

upper

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO EDUCATION

upper

1 primary · 3 co-sponsors