Bill Text: NY A10696 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"; requires community school boards in the city of New York to authorize the use of school grounds in the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival); establishes a steel pan music curriculum or instruction for community school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-09 - referred to education [A10696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10696-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10696

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2022
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cunningham)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "New York
          city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act".
     3    § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 414  of  the  education
     4  law,  as  amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read
     5  as follows:
     6    (c) For holding social, civic and  recreational  meetings  and  enter-
     7  tainments,  and  other  uses pertaining to the welfare of the community;
     8  but such meetings, entertainment and uses  shall  be  non-exclusive  and
     9  shall be open to the general public; provided, however, community school
    10  boards in the city of New York shall authorize the use of school grounds
    11  during  the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to
    12  practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival). Civic meetings
    13  shall include, but not be limited to, meetings  of  parent  associations
    14  and parent-teacher associations.
    15    § 3. Subdivision 27 of section 2590-h of the education law, as amended
    16  by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
    17    27.  Promulgate regulations, in conjunction with each community super-
    18  intendent, establishing a plan for providing access to school facilities
    19  in each community school district, when not in use for school  purposes,
    20  in  accordance  with  the provisions of section four hundred fourteen of
    21  this chapter.  Such plan shall include access to school  grounds  during
    22  the  summer months for steel pan music organizations to practice for the
    23  Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival). Such plan  shall  set  forth  a
    24  reasonable  system  of  fees  not to exceed the actual costs and specify
    25  that no part of any fee shall  directly  or  indirectly  benefit  or  be
    26  deposited  into an account which inures to the benefit of the custodians
    27  or custodial engineers.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 10696                            2

     1    § 4. Section 2590-h of the education law is amended by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 57 to read as follows:
     3    57.  Establish steel pan music curriculum or instruction for community
     4  school districts. The contents may  be  varied  to  meet  the  needs  of
     5  particular community school districts, or portions thereof, and need not
     6  be uniform throughout the city. The content shall be age appropriate and
     7  shall  be  developed  according  to the needs and abilities of pupils at
     8  successive grade levels in order to provide skills  and  information  on
     9  steel pan music.
    10    §  5.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law; provided, however, that  the  amendments  to  section
    12  2590-h  of the education law made by sections three and four of this act
    13  shall not affect the expiration of such  section  and  shall  be  deemed
    14  repealed  therewith.  Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    15  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    16  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    17  completed on or before such date.