Bill Text: NY A00194 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"; requires community school boards in the city of New York to authorize, where reasonable, the use of school grounds in the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to education [A00194 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00194-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           194

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CUNNINGHAM, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, DE LOS SANTOS,
          JACKSON, SMULLEN, BEEPHAN, ALVAREZ, GIBBS,  BENDETT,  TAYLOR  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "New York
          city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act".
     3    §  2.  Paragraph  (c) of subdivision 1 of section 414 of the education
     4  law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended  to  read
     5  as follows:
     6    (c)  For  holding  social,  civic and recreational meetings and enter-
     7  tainments, and other uses pertaining to the welfare  of  the  community;
     8  but  such  meetings,  entertainment  and uses shall be non-exclusive and
     9  shall be open to the general public; provided, however, community school
    10  boards in the city of New York shall, where  reasonable,  authorize  the
    11  use  of school grounds during the summer months for use by any steel pan
    12  music organization to practice for the Labor  Day  Parade  (West  Indian
    13  Carnival),  consistent  with subdivision twenty-seven of section twenty-
    14  five hundred ninety-h of this chapter. Civic meetings shall include, but
    15  not be limited to, meetings of parent  associations  and  parent-teacher
    16  associations.
    17    § 3. Subdivision 27 of section 2590-h of the education law, as amended
    18  by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
    19    27.  Promulgate regulations, in conjunction with each community super-
    20  intendent, establishing a plan for providing access to school facilities
    21  in each community school district, when not in use for school  purposes,
    22  in  accordance  with  the provisions of section four hundred fourteen of
    23  this chapter.  Such plan shall include access to school  grounds  during

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the  summer  months  for cultural organizations to practice for cultural
     2  events, including but not limited to steel pan  music  organizations  to
     3  practice  for  the  Labor  Day  Parade (West Indian Carnival). Such plan
     4  shall  set  forth  a  reasonable system of fees not to exceed the actual
     5  costs and specify that no part of any fee shall directly  or  indirectly
     6  benefit  or  be deposited into an account which inures to the benefit of
     7  the custodians or custodial engineers.
     8    § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have  become  a  law;  provided, however, that the amendments to section
    10  2590-h of the education law made by section three of this act shall  not
    11  affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed repealed ther-
    12  ewith.  Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of
    13  any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this  act  on
    14  its  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before
    15  such date.