Bill Text: NY A05947 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes senior citizen extension schools to provide courses and activities of special interest to the health, welfare, and recreational needs of persons over sixty years of age.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A05947 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05947-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5947 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to availability of adult education programs for the elderly The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 4604 of the education law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows: 3 d. Senior citizen extension schools providing instruction in subjects 4 specified in paragraphs a, b and c of this subdivision as well as other 5 courses and activities of special interest relating to the health, 6 welfare, and recreational needs of persons over sixty years of age. 7 Such senior citizen extension schools may be established and maintained 8 either at existing day and evening schools for adults, at centers for 9 senior citizens, at housing projects or developments wherever a substan- 10 tial number of dwelling units are occupied by persons over sixty years 11 of age or at such other suitable place or places as may be designated by 12 the board of education of such school district. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09821-01-3
