Bill Text: NY A02406 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         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.
                                                                   LBD03694-13-1
        A. 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  been
    17  in  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.