STATE OF NEW YORK
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3164
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring
school districts to be part of county-wide shared services panels
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 119-o of the general municipal
2 law, as added by section 2 of part EE of chapter 55 of the laws of 2018,
3 is amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
4 4. Any [school district or] board of cooperative educational services
5 may join a panel established pursuant to article twelve-I of this chap-
6 ter, and may further participate in any of the activities of such panel,
7 with any participating county, town, city, village, fire district, fire
8 protection district, or special improvement district participating in
9 such panels. For cooperative agreements which involve functions,
10 services, or provisions permitted by this section, [school districts
11 and] boards of cooperative educational services shall be permitted to
12 create and execute such agreements, when a part of the activity of such
13 panel, without opinion or approval of the state education department.
14 5. Each school district shall join each county-wide shared services
15 panel established pursuant to article twelve-I of this chapter for each
16 county in which their district is located, and may further participate
17 in any of the activities of such panel, with any participating county,
18 town, city, village, fire district, fire protection district, or special
19 improvement district participating in such panels. For cooperative
20 agreements which involve functions, services, or provisions permitted by
21 this section, school districts shall be permitted to create and execute
22 such agreements, when a part of the activity of such panel, without
23 opinion or approval of the state education department.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
25 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03072-01-9