Bill Text: NY S09115 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9115 IN SENATE June 19, 2018 ___________ 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. LBD16142-01-8S. 9115 2 1 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.