Bill Text: NY S06572 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Enacts the "urban science, technology, engineering and math (U-STEM) mentor volunteer program for youth act".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to ways and means [S06572 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06572-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6572
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 27, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Investigations  and
          Government Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the tax law, in relation to creating an urban science,
          technology, engineering and math (U-STEM) mentor volunteer program for
          youth and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon  expiration
          thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as  the  "urban
     2  science,  technology,  engineering  and  math  (U-STEM) mentor volunteer
     3  program for youth act".
     4    § 2. Legislative findings and intent.  The  legislature  hereby  finds
     5  that  there is a need to develop, promote and facilitate a mentor volun-
     6  teer program specifically designed to  foster  greater  student  partic-
     7  ipation  for  pupils  living  in high concentrations of poverty in large
     8  urban areas who are in grades seven to twelve in the study  of  science,
     9  technology,  engineering  and  mathematics  herein  referred  to as STEM
    10  programs. The legislature further finds that the STEM programmatic areas
    11  are under-served and under-represented by pupils living  in  poverty  in
    12  the  large urban school districts of the state due in part to the finan-
    13  cial circumstances of the school districts  as  well  as  the  competing
    14  programmatic requirements for high school graduation.
    15    Furthermore,  the  legislature finds that STEM businesses in the large
    16  urban areas are in need of greater  numbers  of  qualified  students  to
    17  pursue  careers in the STEM fields and that there is a state interest in
    18  fostering a programmatic connection between these businesses  and  their
    19  school  districts  to  mentor,  develop and train students interested in
    20  STEM careers.
    21    Therefore be it  resolved  that  the  legislature  creates  the  urban
    22  science,  technology, engineering and mathematics (U-STEM) mentor volun-
    23  teer program for pupils in the large city school districts of the state.
    24    § 3. Section 210-B of the tax law is amended by adding a new  subdivi-
    25  sion 49 to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01764-03-6