Bill Text: NY A03164 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school districts to be part of county-wide shared services panels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to local governments [A03164 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03164-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3164
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          school districts to be part of county-wide shared services panels
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 119-o  of  the  general  municipal
     2  law, as added by section 2 of part EE of chapter 55 of the laws of 2018,
     3  is amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
     4    4.  Any [school district or] board of cooperative educational services
     5  may join a panel established pursuant to article twelve-I of this  chap-
     6  ter, and may further participate in any of the activities of such panel,
     7  with  any participating county, town, city, village, fire district, fire
     8  protection district, or special improvement  district  participating  in
     9  such   panels.  For  cooperative  agreements  which  involve  functions,
    10  services, or provisions permitted by  this  section,  [school  districts
    11  and]  boards  of  cooperative educational services shall be permitted to
    12  create and execute such agreements, when a part of the activity of  such
    13  panel, without opinion or approval of the state education department.
    14    5.  Each  school  district shall join each county-wide shared services
    15  panel established pursuant to article twelve-I of this chapter for  each
    16  county  in  which their district is located, and may further participate
    17  in any of the activities of such panel, with any  participating  county,
    18  town, city, village, fire district, fire protection district, or special
    19  improvement  district  participating  in  such  panels.  For cooperative
    20  agreements which involve functions, services, or provisions permitted by
    21  this section, school districts shall be permitted to create and  execute
    22  such  agreements,  when  a  part  of the activity of such panel, without
    23  opinion or approval of the state education department.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    25  the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03072-01-9