Provides for the renaming of educational BOCES programs as career prep centers; appropriates funds for marketing and replacement signage and other printed materials.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2801
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. KOLB, BARCLAY, CROUCH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO -- 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
career prep centers; 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 "career prep centers". Upon applica-
6 tion by a board of cooperative educational services, there shall be paid
7 to each qualifying board of cooperative educational services an amount
8 up to ten thousand dollars for the purposes of marketing of such schools
9 as career prep centers and for the replacement of signs and other print-
10 ed materials. A board of cooperative educational services shall be
11 required to expend one thousand dollars from existing funds toward such
12 marketing or sign replacement to be eligible for a grant under this
13 subdivision. Signs and materials developed pursuant to the provisions of
14 this subdivision shall bear the phrase "Career Prep Centers: Foundation
15 for Your 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.
