NY State Senate Bill 2025-S6355

Senate Bill S6355

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the qualifications to serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners and of the citywide council on high schools

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee New York City Education Committee

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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2025-S6355 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate New York City Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2590-b, Ed L

2025-S6355 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows parents of a child who has ever received services through an English as a second language program to serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners and of the citywide council on high schools even if the child is no longer enrolled.

2025-S6355 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6355

SPONSOR: LIU
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to the qualifications to
serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners
and of the citywide council on high schools

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To allow for greater participation of English language learner families
in the governance of NYC schools.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the education law to include parents of students who
have, at any time in the past, enrolled in a bilingual or English as a
second language program conducted in a public school as eligible to
serve on the city-wide council on English language learners and to allow
them to continue serving their term following the conclusion of their
child's enrollment in a bilingual or English as a second language

program.

Section 2 amends the education law to include parents of students who
have, at any time in the past, enrolled in a bilingual or English as a
second language program conducted in a public school as eligible to
serve on the city-wide council on high schools and to allow them to
continue serving their term following the conclusion of their child's
enrollment in a bilingual or English as a second language program.

Section 3 provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Current law only allows parents of students currently in bilingual or
English Language Learner (ELL) programs to serve on the Citywide Council
on English Language Learners (CCELL). This prevents parents of students
who have experienced and completed such courses from utilizing their
experience and knowledge for the benefit of the NYC school system and
other ELL families. This also greatly constrains the pool of eligible
parents.

This bill would expand the eligibility criteria for CCELL and ELL
members of the Citywide Council on High Schools (CCHS) to allow members
to serve or continue serving after their child has graduated from ELL
programs. This would bring the eligibility criteria in line with the
requirements for the ELL members of the Community District Education
Councils (CECs). This would allow for CCELL positions to be filled more
easily with experienced members knowledgeable of successful ELL program-
ming, reducing the need for special elections and improving the ability
of CCELL to achieve quorum and conduct business.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S6355 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6355
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LIU  --  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 the qualifications  to
   serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners
   and of the citywide council on high schools

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  5  of
 section  2590-b  of  the education law, as amended by chapter 103 of the
 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) nine voting members who shall be parents of students who are OR AT
 ANY TIME IN THE PAST HAVE BEEN ENROLLED in a bilingual or English  as  a
 second language program conducted pursuant to section thirty-two hundred
 four  of this chapter[, some of whom may be parents of students who have
 been in such a program within the preceding two years], to  be  selected
 by  parents  of students who receive OR HAVE EVER RECEIVED such services
 pursuant to a representative process developed by the  chancellor.  Such
 members  shall  serve  a two year term AND SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO CONTINUE
 SERVING THEIR TERM FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF THEIR CHILD'S  ENROLLMENT
 IN A BILINGUAL OR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAM;
   §  2.  Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section
 2590-b of the education law, as added by chapter  345  of  the  laws  of
 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii)  one  voting member who shall be a parent of a student WHO IS OR
 AT ANY TIME IN THE PAST HAS BEEN ENROLLED in a bilingual or English as a
 second language program conducted in a public high school.  Such  member
 shall  be  appointed  by the city-wide council on English language lear-
 ners, and shall serve a two year term AND SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO  CONTINUE
 SERVING  THEIR TERM FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF THEIR CHILD'S ENROLLMENT
 IN A BILINGUAL OR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAM;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10424-01-5
 S. 6355                             2

 
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to section 2590-b of the education law made by sections
 one and two of this act shall not affect the  expiration  or  repeal  of
 such provisions and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.

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