Bill Text: NY A06433 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to providing secondary school pupils and adults in career education programs access to programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair; establishes the working group on electric vehicle career education achievement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A06433 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06433-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6433 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing secondary school pupils and adults in career education programs access to programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 4602-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 4602-a. Career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair. 1. 4 For purposes of this section: 5 (a) "career major" shall mean a number of courses in a career educa- 6 tion program which together provide a student with greater technical 7 skill and a strong academic core and are primarily designed for those 8 students who are not initially college bound and shall provide them with 9 alternatives to immediate entrance into a four-year university or 10 college after high school graduation. A career major shall be linked to 11 postsecondary options and shall prepare students to pursue either a 12 degree or certification from a postsecondary institution, an industry- 13 based training or certification, an apprenticeship, the military, or 14 immediate entrance into a career field, pursuant to policies adopted by 15 the commissioner; and 16 (b) "electric vehicle" shall mean an automotive-type vehicle for 17 on-road use, such as passenger automobiles, buses, trucks, vans, neigh- 18 borhood electric vehicles, and electric motorcycles, powered by an elec- 19 tric motor that draws current from a rechargeable storage battery, fuel 20 cell, photovoltaic array, or other source of electric current which is 21 charged by being plugged into an electrical source. For the purposes of 22 this section, off-road, self-propelled electric vehicles, such as indus- 23 trial trucks, hoists, lifts, transports, golf carts, airline ground EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01608-01-3A. 6433 2 1 support equipment, tractors, and boats, are not included in the defi- 2 nition of "electric vehicle". 3 2. The board of education of each school district shall develop career 4 major programs of study in electric vehicle maintenance and repair, 5 available to all secondary school pupils and adults in career education 6 programs, in accordance with a phase-in schedule as determined by 7 reports from the working group established under subdivision three of 8 this section. Every career education school in the state shall adminis- 9 ter a number of classes necessary to meet the requirements of a career 10 major and provide instruction designed to educate students on electric 11 vehicle maintenance and repair. These courses shall also be offered to 12 each high school student enrolled in a school district that offers a 13 career major program. The courses contained in the electric vehicle 14 maintenance and repair career major shall be defined and administered by 15 the board of education of each school district after consultation with 16 the working group, as provided in subdivision three of this section. 17 3. (a) No later than sixty days following the effective date of this 18 section, the public service commission shall establish the working group 19 on electric vehicle career education achievement ("the working group"). 20 The working group, no later than the date specified by the public 21 service commission and on an annual basis thereafter, shall meet and 22 then provide the commissioner and the board of education of each school 23 district with recommendations necessary to implement the electric vehi- 24 cle maintenance and repair career major. The working group shall provide 25 guidance, advice, and make recommendations to the commissioner on 26 matters pertaining to education policy, performance and innovation in 27 electric vehicle technology. The commissioner shall promulgate such 28 recommendations of the working group as may be necessary to establish 29 the curriculum, assessments and any other criteria that students must 30 achieve to earn a career major pursuant to this section. 31 (b) The public service commission shall compose the working group and 32 may consult with the commissioner for recommendations. The working group 33 shall consist of eight members appointed as follows: 34 (i) two members appointed from the public service commission; 35 (ii) two members appointed from the New York state energy research and 36 development authority; 37 (iii) two members from the department; 38 (iv) one member with an expertise in electric vehicle engineering who 39 is located within the state; and 40 (v) one member appointed from a state-based environmental organiza- 41 tion. 42 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
