Bill Text: NY A02801 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the renaming of educational BOCES programs as career prep centers; appropriates funds for marketing and replacement signage and other printed materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-25 - held for consideration in education [A02801 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02801-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2801
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. KOLB, BARCLAY, CROUCH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Spon-
          sored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  renaming  certain
          schools  established by a board of cooperative educational services as
          career prep centers; and making an appropriation therefor
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1950 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. On and after the effective date of this  subdivision  all  educa-
     4  tional  programs  provided  or operated by a board of cooperative educa-
     5  tional services shall be known as "career prep centers".  Upon  applica-
     6  tion by a board of cooperative educational services, there shall be paid
     7  to  each  qualifying board of cooperative educational services an amount
     8  up to ten thousand dollars for the purposes of marketing of such schools
     9  as career prep centers and for the replacement of signs and other print-
    10  ed materials. A board  of  cooperative  educational  services  shall  be
    11  required  to expend one thousand dollars from existing funds toward such
    12  marketing or sign replacement to be eligible  for  a  grant  under  this
    13  subdivision. Signs and materials developed pursuant to the provisions of
    14  this subdivision shall bear the phrase "Career Prep Centers:  Foundation
    15  for Your Future".
    16    §  2.  The sum of three hundred eighty thousand dollars ($380,000), or
    17  so much thereof as may be  necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated  to  the
    18  department  of  education out of any moneys in the state treasury in the
    19  general fund to the credit of the local assistance account,  not  other-
    20  wise  appropriated,  and  made immediately available, for the purpose of
    21  carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on
    22  the audit and warrant  of  the  comptroller  on  vouchers  certified  or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  approved  by  the  commissioner of education in the manner prescribed by
     2  law.
     3    §  3.  By  January  first  of each year, the commissioner of education
     4  shall issue a report to the governor and the legislature concerning  the
     5  effectiveness  of  marketing  education  programs  provided by boards of
     6  cooperative educational services pursuant to the provision  of  subdivi-
     7  sion 1-a of section 1950 of the education law as added by section one of
     8  this act.
     9    §  4.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    10  the date on which it shall have become a law.