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                                   6138
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 5, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "New York
   city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act".
   § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 414  of  the  education
 law,  as  amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (c) For holding social, civic and  recreational  meetings  and  enter-
 tainments,  and  other  uses pertaining to the welfare of the community;
 but such meetings, entertainment and uses  shall  be  non-exclusive  and
 shall be open to the general public; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, COMMUNITY SCHOOL
 BOARDS  IN  THE  CITY OF NEW YORK SHALL, WHERE REASONABLE, AUTHORIZE THE
 USE OF SCHOOL GROUNDS DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS FOR USE BY ANY STEEL  PAN
 MUSIC  ORGANIZATION  TO  PRACTICE  FOR THE LABOR DAY PARADE (WEST INDIAN
 CARNIVAL), CONSISTENT WITH SUBDIVISION TWENTY-SEVEN OF  SECTION  TWENTY-
 FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-H OF THIS CHAPTER. Civic meetings shall include, but
 not  be  limited  to, meetings of parent associations and parent-teacher
 associations.
   § 3. Subdivision 27 of section 2590-h of the education law, as amended
 by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   27. Promulgate regulations, in conjunction with each community  super-
 intendent, establishing a plan for providing access to school facilities
 in  each community school district, when not in use for school purposes,
 in accordance with the provisions of section four  hundred  fourteen  of
 this  chapter.   SUCH PLAN SHALL INCLUDE ACCESS TO SCHOOL GROUNDS DURING
 THE SUMMER MONTHS FOR CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS TO  PRACTICE  FOR  CULTURAL
 EVENTS,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO STEEL PAN MUSIC ORGANIZATIONS TO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 PRACTICE FOR THE LABOR DAY PARADE  (WEST  INDIAN  CARNIVAL).  Such  plan
 shall  set  forth  a  reasonable system of fees not to exceed the actual
 costs and specify that no part of any fee shall directly  or  indirectly
 benefit  or  be deposited into an account which inures to the benefit of
 the custodians or custodial engineers.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law;  provided, however, that the amendments to section
 2590-h of the education law made by section three of this act shall  not
 affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed repealed ther-
 ewith.  Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of
 any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this  act  on
 its  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before
 such date.