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Assembly Bill A10591

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Permits schools to allow trade unions to make a recruitment presentation in a high school

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2023-A10591 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5675
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §807-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A3734, S1938

2023-A10591 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.

2023-A10591 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10591
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 20, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bronson,
   McGowan) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting schools  to
   allow trade unions to make a recruitment presentation in a high school
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  807-e
 to read as follows:
   § 807-E. TRADE UNION RECRUITMENT. THE PRINCIPAL OF ANY HIGH SCHOOL MAY
 ALLOW  ANY  LOCAL TRADE UNION, UPON REQUEST, TO ENTER THE SCHOOL FOR THE
 PURPOSE OF TRADE UNION  RECRUITMENT,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO:
 MAKING  PRESENTATIONS; DISSEMINATING LITERATURE; AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS
 BY STUDENTS.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "TRADE  UNION"
 SHALL  MEAN  AN  ORGANIZED  ASSOCIATION  OF WORKERS IN A TRADE, GROUP OF
 TRADES, OR PROFESSION, FORMED TO PROTECT AND FURTHER  THEIR  RIGHTS  AND
 INTERESTS.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09125-01-3

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