Senate Bill S7684

                            
 
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                                   7684
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2018
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 Introduced  by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  admission  policy
   changes in a city school district in a city having a population of one
   million or more
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  345  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
 follows:
   4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
 of  this  article, maintain such jurisdiction over city-wide educational
 policies governing the special, academic,  vocational,  and  other  high
 schools  authorized  by  this article [before the effective date of this
 section] as the respective community district education  councils  main-
 tain  over  the  schools  within  their jurisdiction, which shall not be
 construed to require or authorize  the  day-to-day  supervision  or  the
 administration of the operations of such schools. PROVIDED, FURTHER, THE
 CHANCELLOR  SHALL  REQUEST,  IN  WRITING, APPROVAL FROM THE COMMISSIONER
 PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTING ANY ADMISSIONS POLICY CHANGES AND THE COMMISSIONER
 SHALL WAIT A MINIMUM OF NINETY DAYS FROM RECEIPT OF SUCH REQUEST  BEFORE
 MAKING  A  FINAL  DETERMINATION.  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS  OF  RECEIPT OF A
 REQUEST, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ISSUE A NOTICE FOR  PUBLIC  COMMENT  AND
 SUCH PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD SHALL REMAIN OPEN FOR THIRTY DAYS. ALL PUBLIC
 COMMENTS  COLLECTED  DURING  SUCH  THIRTY DAY PERIOD SHALL BE CONSIDERED
 PRIOR TO FINAL DETERMINATION.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by
 chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
 of  this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the
 special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by  this
 article  [before  the  effective date of this section] as the respective
 community boards maintain over the schools  within  their  jurisdiction,
 which  shall  not  be  construed  to require or authorize the day-to-day
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 supervision or the administration of the  operations  of  such  schools.
 PROVIDED,  FURTHER,  THE  CHANCELLOR SHALL REQUEST, IN WRITING, APPROVAL
 FROM THE COMMISSIONER PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTING ANY ADMISSIONS POLICY CHANG-
 ES AND THE COMMISSIONER SHALL WAIT A MINIMUM OF NINETY DAYS FROM RECEIPT
 OF  SUCH REQUEST BEFORE MAKING A FINAL DETERMINATION. WITHIN THIRTY DAYS
 OF RECEIPT OF A REQUEST, THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ISSUE  A  NOTICE  FOR
 PUBLIC  COMMENT  AND  SUCH  PUBLIC  COMMENT PERIOD SHALL REMAIN OPEN FOR
 THIRTY DAYS. ALL PUBLIC COMMENTS COLLECTED DURING SUCH THIRTY DAY PERIOD
 SHALL BE CONSIDERED PRIOR TO FINAL DETERMINATION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ment  to  subdivision  4  of section 2590-g of the education law made by
 section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion
 of such section pursuant to section 34 of chapter  91  of  the  laws  of
 2002,  as  amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of
 this act shall take effect.