Bill Text: NY A02406 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to requirements associated with the New York city community school district system; permits city-wide council presidents to vote for a member of the city board; allows parents whose children who at any time in the past enrolled in a bilingual or English as a second language program to serve on the city-wide council on English language learners.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A02406 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A02406-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2406--B 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 19, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requirements associ- ated with the New York city community school district system and the length of certain council members' terms The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 2 2590-b of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (C) to 3 read as follows: 4 (C) Commencing on July first, two thousand twenty-two, the board of 5 education shall consist of fifteen members: one member to be appointed 6 by each borough president of the city of New York, one member to be 7 elected by community district education and city-wide council presi- 8 dents, and nine members to be appointed by the mayor of the city of New 9 York. On or before December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one, the 10 chancellor shall promulgate regulations establishing a process for 11 community district education and city-wide council presidents to elect a 12 member of the board, and processes for removal of such member and for 13 the filling of such position in the event of a vacancy. The first member 14 elected by community district education and city-wide council presidents 15 pursuant to such regulations shall take office on July first, two thou- 16 sand twenty-two and shall serve a term that ends on June thirtieth, two 17 thousand twenty-four. Thereafter, the member elected by community 18 district education and city-wide council presidents shall serve for a 19 two year term commencing on July first. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03694-13-1A. 2406--B 2 1 § 2. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 2590-b 2 of the education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (1) nine voting members who shall be parents of students with individ- 5 ualized education programs, to be selected by parents of students with 6 individualized education programs pursuant to a representative process 7 developed by the chancellor. Such members shall serve a two year term 8 and shall be eligible to continue serving their term following the 9 conclusion of their child's individualized education program; 10 § 3. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 11 2590-b of the education law, as amended by chapter 103 of the laws of 12 2013, is amended to read as follows: 13 (i) nine voting members who shall be parents of students who [are] at 14 any time in the past enrolled in a bilingual or English as a second 15 language program conducted pursuant to section thirty-two hundred four 16 of this chapter[, some of whom may be parents of students who have been17in such a program within the preceding two years], to be selected by 18 parents of students who receive or have ever received such services 19 pursuant to a representative process developed by the chancellor. Such 20 members shall serve a two year term and shall be eligible to continue 21 serving their term following the conclusion of their child's enrollment 22 in a bilingual or English as a second language program; 23 § 4. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 24 2590-b of the education law, as amended by section 43-g of part YYY of 25 chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 26 (i) ten voting members who shall be parents of students attending 27 public high schools. For councils whose terms begin prior to two thou- 28 sand twenty, two members representing each borough shall be selected by 29 presidents and officers of the parents' associations or parent-teachers' 30 associations in the relevant borough, pursuant to a process established 31 by the chancellor. For councils whose terms begin in two thousand twen- 32 ty-one [and thereafter], two members representing each borough shall be 33 parents of public high school students in the relevant borough, pursuant 34 to a process established by the chancellor. Such members shall serve a 35 two year term, and shall be eligible to continue serving their term 36 following the conclusion of their child's attendance at a public high 37 school. For councils whose terms begin in two thousand twenty-two and 38 thereafter, two members representing each borough shall be selected by 39 parents of public high school students in the relevant borough, pursuant 40 to a process established by the chancellor. Such members shall serve a 41 two year term, and shall be eligible to continue serving their term 42 following the conclusion of their child's attendance at a public high 43 school; 44 § 5. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 45 2590-b of the education law, as added by chapter 345 of the laws of 46 2009, is amended to read as follows: 47 (iii) one voting member who shall be a parent of a student who at any 48 time in the past enrolled in a bilingual or English as a second language 49 program conducted in a public high school. Such member shall be 50 appointed by the city-wide council on English language learners, and 51 shall serve a two year term; 52 § 6. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that 53 the amendments to section 2590-b of the education law made by sections 54 one, two, three, four and five of this act shall not affect the expira- 55 tion or repeal of such provisions and shall expire and be deemed 56 repealed therewith.
