Bill Text: NY S07659 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes a board of cooperative educational services to engage in collective bargaining, on a supervisory district-wide basis, with the employee organizations representing teachers and other employees of the component school districts which opt for such services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-29 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07659 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S07659-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7659
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 29, 2010
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- 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 authorizing boards  of
         cooperative  educational  services  to engage in collective bargaining
         with employee organizations representing teachers and other  employees
         of component school districts
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subdivision 4 of section 1950  of  the  education  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph oo to read as follows:
    3    OO.  UPON  THE  REQUEST OF THE COMPONENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND WITH THE
    4  APPROVAL OF THE COMMISSIONER, TO PROVIDE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, PURSUANT
    5  TO  ARTICLE  FOURTEEN  OF  THE  CIVIL  SERVICE  LAW,  ON  A  SUPERVISORY
    6  DISTRICT-WIDE  BASIS  WITH  THE  EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING THE
    7  TEACHERS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE COMPONENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15272-02-0