Assembly Bill A5116

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the powers and duties of the city board

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A5116 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2590-g, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7652
2021-2022: A6979

2019-A5116 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the powers and duties of the city board; provides that any city board vote concerning the co-location of a school shall be held in the same borough as the proposed co-location.

2019-A5116 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5116
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DAVILA, BARRON, SIMON, GLICK, HYNDMAN, JOYNER --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, DE LA ROSA  --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers and duties
   of the city board

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (h)  of subdivision 1 of section 2590-g of the
 education law, as added by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (h)  approve  proposals for all school closures or significant changes
 in school utilization including the  phase-out,  grade  reconfiguration,
 re-siting,  or co-location of schools, following any hearing pursuant to
 subdivision two-a of section twenty-five hundred ninety-h of this  arti-
 cle.  ANY VOTE BY THE BOARD APPROVING A PROPOSED CO-LOCATION OF A SCHOOL
 SHALL BE HELD IN THE SAME BOROUGH AS THE PROPOSED CO-LOCATION.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
 the amendments to paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of  section  2590-g  of
 the  education  law  made  by  section one of this act shall survive the
 expiration and reversion of such section as provided in  section  34  of
 chapter 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06364-02-9

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