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Assembly Bill A3911

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Expands the powers and duties of the community district education council and restricts the authority of the city board of education of the city of New York to co-locate schools

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2015-A3911 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง2590-e & 2590-g, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9551
2013-2014: A2805

2015-A3911 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the powers and duties of the community district education council and restricts the authority of the city board of education of the city of New York to co-locate schools.

2015-A3911 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3911

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 28, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WRIGHT,  LAVINE,  TITUS, GLICK, SCARBOROUGH,
  ROBERTS, FARRELL, CRESPO, MOYA,  WEPRIN,  AUBRY,  JAFFEE,  BRAUNSTEIN,
  ROSENTHAL,  COOK,  COLTON  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. ABBATE,
  BRENNAN, BROOK-KRASNY, DenDEKKER,  DINOWITZ,  GOTTFRIED,  MALLIOTAKIS,
  MARKEY,  O'DONNELL,  PERRY, ROBINSON, TITONE -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding  the  powers
  and duties of the community district education council and restricting
  the  authority  of the city board of education of the city of New York
  to co-locate schools

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 2590-e of the education law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
  22. APPROVE OR REJECT ALL PROPOSALS TO CO-LOCATE A SCHOOL WITHIN THEIR
DISTRICT PRIOR TO A CITY BOARD VOTE.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2590-g of the education law  is  amended
by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
  (I)  THE  CITY  BOARD  SHALL  NOT  VOTE ON ANY PROPOSAL TO CO-LOCATE A
SCHOOL UNLESS THE COMMUNITY DISTRICT EDUCATION  COUNCIL  HAS  PREVIOUSLY
VOTED TO APPROVE SUCH PROPOSAL AT A REGULAR MEETING OR SPECIAL MEETING.
  S  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
the amendments to sections 2590-e and 2590-g of the education  law  made
by  sections one and two of this act, respectively, shall not affect the
expiration of such sections and shall be deemed to expire therewith.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05179-01-5

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