Bill Text: NY A01717 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"; requires community school boards in the city of New York to authorize, where reasonable, the use of school grounds in the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - print number 1717b [A01717 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01717-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1717--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CUNNINGHAM, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, DE LOS SANTOS,
          JACKSON, SMULLEN, BEEPHAN, ARDILA, ALVAREZ, DICKENS,  GIBBS,  BENDETT,
          TAYLOR  --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Education --
          recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with  Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "New York
          city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act".
     3    § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 414  of  the  education
     4  law,  as  amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read
     5  as follows:
     6    (c) For holding social, civic and  recreational  meetings  and  enter-
     7  tainments,  and  other  uses pertaining to the welfare of the community;
     8  but such meetings, entertainment and uses  shall  be  non-exclusive  and
     9  shall be open to the general public; provided, however, community school
    10  boards  in  the  city of New York shall, where reasonable, authorize the
    11  use of school grounds during the summer months for use by any steel  pan
    12  music  organization  to  practice  for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian
    13  Carnival), consistent with subdivision twenty-seven of  section  twenty-
    14  five hundred ninety-h of this chapter. Civic meetings shall include, but
    15  not  be  limited  to, meetings of parent associations and parent-teacher
    16  associations.
    17    § 3. Subdivision 27 of section 2590-h of the education law, as amended
    18  by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
    19    27. Promulgate regulations, in conjunction with each community  super-
    20  intendent, establishing a plan for providing access to school facilities
    21  in  each community school district, when not in use for school purposes,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  in accordance with the provisions of section four  hundred  fourteen  of
     2  this  chapter.   Such plan shall include access to school grounds during
     3  the summer months for steel pan music organizations to practice for  the
     4  Labor  Day  Parade  (West  Indian Carnival). Such plan shall set forth a
     5  reasonable system of fees not to exceed the  actual  costs  and  specify
     6  that  no  part  of  any  fee  shall directly or indirectly benefit or be
     7  deposited into an account which inures to the benefit of the  custodians
     8  or custodial engineers.
     9    §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law; provided, however, that  the  amendments  to  section
    11  2590-h  of the education law made by section three of this act shall not
    12  affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed repealed ther-
    13  ewith. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or  repeal  of
    14  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on
    15  its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or  before
    16  such date.