Provides for the renaming of educational BOCES programs as Quest schools; appropriates funds for marketing and replacement signage and other printed materials.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7112
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. KOLB, BACALLES, BARCLAY, CROUCH, SAYWARD, WALKER
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO, MOLINARO -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to renaming certain
schools established by a board of cooperative educational services as
Quest schools; and making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1950 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. On and after the effective date of this subdivision all educa-
4 tional programs provided or operated by a board of cooperative educa-
5 tional services shall be known as "Quest schools". Upon application by a
6 board of cooperative educational services, there shall be paid to each
7 qualifying board of cooperative educational services an amount up to ten
8 thousand dollars for the purposes of marketing of such schools as Quest
9 schools and for the replacement of signs and other printed materials. A
10 board of cooperative educational services shall be required to expend
11 one thousand dollars from existing funds towards such marketing and/or
12 sign replacement to be eligible for a grant under this subdivision.
13 Signs and materials developed pursuant to the provisions of this subdi-
14 vision shall bear the phrase "Quest Schools: Foundation for Your
15 Future".
16 § 2. The sum of three hundred eighty thousand dollars ($380,000), or
17 so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the
18 department of education out of any moneys in the state treasury in the
19 general fund to the credit of the local assistance account, not other-
20 wise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of
21 carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on
22 the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 approved by the commissioner of education in the manner prescribed by
2 law.
3 § 3. By January first of each year, the commissioner of education
4 shall issue a report to the governor and the legislature concerning the
5 effectiveness of marketing education programs provided by boards of
6 cooperative educational services pursuant to the provision of subdivi-
7 sion 1-a of section 1950 of the education law as added by section one of
8 this act.
9 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
10 the date on which it shall have become a law.
