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Assembly Bill A4681

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the powers of boards of education to temporarily lease necessary space

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2025-A4681 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1709, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9835
2021-2022: A1418
2023-2024: A1512

2025-A4681 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the powers of boards of education to temporarily lease necessary space to include when facilities are under construction.

2025-A4681 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4681
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'PHARROW  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers  of  boards
   of education to temporarily lease necessary space
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 1709  of  the  education  law,  as
 added by chapter 130 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
   7.  To  lease,  on  a  temporary basis, necessary space not located on
 school property, when the facilities of the  district  are  overcrowded,
 UNDER  CONSTRUCTION,  or  damaged or destroyed, and to furnish and equip
 such space for school district use. The  use  of  such  space  shall  be
 subject to annual approval by the commissioner.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD08794-01-5

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