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Assembly Bill A10079A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the qualifications to serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners and of the citywide council on high schools

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2025-A10079 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6355
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2590-b, Ed L

2025-A10079 - Summary

Allows parents of a child who has ever received services through an English as a second language program to serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners and of the citywide council on high schools even if the child is no longer enrolled.

2025-A10079 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10079
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the qualifications  to
   serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners
   and of the citywide council on high schools
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  5  of
 section  2590-b  of  the education law, as amended by chapter 103 of the
 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) nine voting members who shall be parents of students who are OR AT
 ANY TIME IN THE PAST HAVE BEEN ENROLLED in a bilingual or English  as  a
 second language program conducted pursuant to section thirty-two hundred
 four  of this chapter[, some of whom may be parents of students who have
 been in such a program within the preceding two years], to  be  selected
 by  parents  of students who receive OR HAVE EVER RECEIVED such services
 pursuant to a representative process developed by the  chancellor.  Such
 members  shall  serve  a two year term AND SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO CONTINUE
 SERVING THEIR TERM FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF THEIR CHILD'S  ENROLLMENT
 IN A BILINGUAL OR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAM;
   §  2.  Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section
 2590-b of the education law, as added by chapter  345  of  the  laws  of
 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii)  one  voting member who shall be a parent of a student WHO IS OR
 AT ANY TIME IN THE PAST HAS BEEN ENROLLED in a bilingual or English as a
 second language program conducted in a public high school.  Such  member
 shall  be  appointed  by the city-wide council on English language lear-
 ners, and shall serve a two year term AND SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO  CONTINUE
 SERVING  THEIR TERM FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF THEIR CHILD'S ENROLLMENT
 IN A BILINGUAL OR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAM;
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to section 2590-b of the education law made by sections
 one and two of this act shall not affect the  expiration  or  repeal  of
 such provisions and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

2025-A10079A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6355
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2590-b, Ed L

2025-A10079A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows parents of a child who has ever received services through an English as a second language program to serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners and of the citywide council on high schools even if the child is no longer enrolled.

2025-A10079A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10079--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the qualifications to
   serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners
   and of the citywide council on high schools

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (a) of subdivision 5 of
 section 2590-b of the education law, as amended by chapter  103  of  the
 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   (i)  nine  voting  members who shall be parents of students who are OR
 HAVE BEEN AT ANY TIME ENROLLED in a bilingual or  English  as  a  second
 language  program  conducted pursuant to section thirty-two hundred four
 of this chapter[, some of whom may be parents of students who have  been
 in  such  a  program  within the preceding two years], to be selected by
 parents of students who receive  OR  HAVE  AT  ANY  TIME  RECEIVED  such
 services  pursuant to a representative process developed by the chancel-
 lor. Such members shall serve a two year term AND SHALL BE  ELIGIBLE  TO
 CONTINUE  SERVING  THEIR  TERM FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF THEIR CHILD'S
 ENROLLMENT IN A BILINGUAL OR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAM;
   § 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 6  of  section
 2590-b  of  the  education  law,  as added by chapter 345 of the laws of
 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii) one voting member who shall be a parent of a student WHO  IS  OR
 HAS  BEEN  AT  ANY  TIME  ENROLLED in a bilingual or English as a second
 language program conducted in a public high school. Such member shall be
 appointed by the city-wide council on  English  language  learners,  and
 shall  serve  a  two year term AND SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO CONTINUE SERVING
 THEIR TERM FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF THEIR  CHILD'S  ENROLLMENT  IN  A
 BILINGUAL OR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAM;
   §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
 the amendments to section 2590-b of the education law made  by  sections
 one  and  two  of  this act shall not affect the expiration or repeal of
 such provisions and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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