Bill Text: NY S09115 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the smart schools review board to meet at minimum once every three months and to further announce the date for a subsequent meeting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-19 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S09115-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9115
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 19, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        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 section 16 of section 3641
     2  of the education law, as amended by section 3 of part YYY of chapter  59
     3  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
    26  thirty-six hundred two of this article. Any department, agency or public
    27  authority shall provide the smart schools review board with any informa-
    28  tion it requires to fulfill its duties pursuant to this subdivision.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 9115                             2
     1    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.