Bill Text: NY A07652 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the powers and duties of the city board; provides that any city board vote concerning the co-location of a school shall be held in the same borough as the proposed co-location.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A07652 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07652-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7652
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 5, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers and duties
          of the city board
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (h)  of subdivision 1 of section 2590-g of the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (h) approve proposals for all school closures or  significant  changes
     5  in  school  utilization  including the phase-out, grade reconfiguration,
     6  re-siting, or co-location of schools, following any hearing pursuant  to
     7  subdivision  two-a of section twenty-five hundred ninety-h of this arti-
     8  cle.  Any vote by the board approving a proposed co-location of a school
     9  shall be held in the same borough as the proposed co-location.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    11  the  amendments  to  paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-g of
    12  the education law made by section one of  this  act  shall  survive  the
    13  expiration  and  reversion  of such section as provided in section 34 of
    14  chapter 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11275-01-7