Bill Text: NY S03416 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes two or more school districts in certain supervisory districts to enter into a contract to establish and operate a regional high school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - PRINT NUMBER 3416A [S03416 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S03416-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3416--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 9, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the estab- lishment of regional high schools in certain supervisory districts 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 article 39-A 2 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 39-A 4 REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS 5 Section 1920. Regional high school; establishment. 6 § 1920. Regional high school; establishment. The establishment of a 7 regional high school shall be commenced upon the adoption of a resol- 8 ution proposing the establishment of such a high school, by majority 9 vote, of each of the boards of education of two or more school 10 districts, which are city school districts in cities having a population 11 of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, central 12 school districts, union free school districts and/or common school 13 districts, provided that all such school districts are wholly contained 14 within the Cattaraugus-Allegany-Erie-Wyoming board of cooperative educa- 15 tional services supervisory district, the Erie 2 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus 16 board of cooperative educational services supervisory district, or the 17 Greater Southern Tier board of cooperative educational services supervi- 18 sory district. Thereafter, if two or more school districts adopt such a 19 resolution, the board of education of each school district proposing to 20 establish the regional high school shall, not less than thirty days 21 prior to any vote of its electors upon the resolution, conduct a meeting 22 open to the public upon the terms and conditions of such resolution. The EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08967-02-6
