STATE OF NEW YORK
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1347
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the smart schools
review board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph b of subdivision 16 of section
2 3641 of the education law, as amended by section 3 of part YYY of chap-
3 ter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 (3) The smart schools review board shall review all smart schools
5 investment plans for compliance with all eligibility criteria and other
6 requirements set forth in the guidelines. The smart schools review board
7 [may] shall meet at minimum once every three months to approve or reject
8 such plans that have undergone such review, or may return such plans to
9 the school district for modifications; provided that notwithstanding any
10 inconsistent provision of law, the smart schools review board shall
11 approve no such plan first submitted to the department on or after April
12 fifteenth, two thousand seventeen, unless such plan calculates the
13 amount of classroom technology to be loaned to students attending
14 nonpublic schools pursuant to section seven hundred fifty-five of this
15 chapter in a manner that includes the amount budgeted by the school
16 district for servers, wireless access points and other portable connec-
17 tivity devices to be acquired as part of a school connectivity project.
18 At each such meeting, the smart schools review board shall announce the
19 date for their next meeting. Upon approval, the smart schools project or
20 projects described in the investment plan shall be eligible for smart
21 schools grants. A smart schools project included in a school district's
22 smart schools investment plan shall not require separate approval of the
23 commissioner unless it is part of a school construction project required
24 to be submitted for approval of the commissioner pursuant to section
25 four hundred eight of this chapter and/or subdivision six of section
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 thirty-six hundred two of this article. Any department, agency or public
2 authority shall provide the smart schools review board with any informa-
3 tion it requires to fulfill its duties pursuant to this subdivision.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.