Bill Text: NY A01418 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the powers of boards of education to temporarily lease necessary space to include when facilities are under construction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A01418 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01418-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1418

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. JEAN-PIERRE, OTIS -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers  of  boards
          of education to temporarily lease necessary space

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 1709  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 130 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
     3    7.  To  lease,  on  a  temporary basis, necessary space not located on
     4  school property, when the facilities of the  district  are  overcrowded,
     5  under  construction,  or  damaged or destroyed, and to furnish and equip
     6  such space for school district use. The  use  of  such  space  shall  be
     7  subject to annual approval by the commissioner.
     8    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
     9  the date on which it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04904-01-1