Bill Text: NY A06979 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the powers and duties of the city board; provides that any city board vote concerning the co-location of a school shall be held in the same borough as the proposed co-location.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A06979 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06979-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6979

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DAVILA, BARRON, SIMON, GLICK, HYNDMAN, JOYNER --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DE LA ROSA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers and  duties
          of the city board

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of  section  2590-g  of  the
     2  education  law,  as amended by section 43-f of part YYY of chapter 59 of
     3  the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (h) approve proposals for all school closures or  significant  changes
     5  in  school  utilization  including the phase-out, grade reconfiguration,
     6  re-siting, or co-location of schools, following any hearing pursuant  to
     7  subdivision  two-a of section twenty-five hundred ninety-h of this arti-
     8  cle. If the city board approves such a proposal that the relevant commu-
     9  nity council affirmatively voted against pursuant to  subdivision  twen-
    10  ty-one  of  section  twenty-five  hundred  ninety-e of this article, the
    11  board shall provide such council an explanation for  its  determination.
    12  Any vote by the board approving a proposed co-location of a school shall
    13  be held in the same borough as the proposed co-location.
    14    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
    15  the amendments to paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of  section  2590-g  of
    16  the  education  law  made  by  section one of this act shall survive the
    17  expiration and reversion of such section as provided in  section  34  of
    18  chapter 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10906-01-1