Assembly Bill A5201

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the smart schools review board

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A5201 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3754
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3641, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11046, S9115
2019-2020: A7119, S1347

2021-A5201 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A5201 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5201
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BENEDETTO, OTIS, GRIFFIN, STERN, AUBRY -- read
   once and referred 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:

   Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph b of subdivision 16 of  section
 3641  of the education law, as amended by section 3 of part YYY of chap-
 ter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (3) The smart schools review board  shall  review  all  smart  schools
 investment  plans for compliance with all eligibility criteria and other
 requirements set forth in the guidelines. The smart schools review board
 [may] SHALL MEET AT MINIMUM ONCE EVERY THREE MONTHS TO approve or reject
 such plans THAT HAVE UNDERGONE SUCH REVIEW, or may return such plans  to
 the school district for modifications; provided that notwithstanding any
 inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the  smart schools review board shall
 approve no such plan first submitted to the department on or after April
 fifteenth, two thousand  seventeen,  unless  such  plan  calculates  the
 amount  of  classroom  technology  to  be  loaned  to students attending
 nonpublic schools pursuant to section seven hundred fifty-five  of  this
 chapter  in  a  manner  that  includes the amount budgeted by the school
 district for servers, wireless access points and other portable  connec-
 tivity  devices to be acquired as part of a school connectivity project.
 AT EACH SUCH MEETING, THE SMART SCHOOLS REVIEW BOARD SHALL ANNOUNCE  THE
 DATE FOR THEIR NEXT MEETING. Upon approval, the smart schools project or
 projects  described  in  the investment plan shall be eligible for smart
 schools grants. A smart schools project included in a school  district's
 smart schools investment plan shall not require separate approval of the
 commissioner unless it is part of a school construction project required
 to  be  submitted  for  approval of the commissioner pursuant to section
 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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