Establishes senior citizen extension schools to provide courses and activities of special interest to the health, welfare, and recreational needs of persons over sixty years of age.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5447
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to availability of adult
education programs for the elderly
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 4604 of the education law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
3 d. Senior citizen extension schools providing instruction in subjects
4 specified in paragraphs a, b and c of this subdivision as well as other
5 courses and activities of special interest relating to the health,
6 welfare, and recreational needs of persons over sixty years of age.
7 Such senior citizen extension schools may be established and maintained
8 either at existing day and evening schools for adults, at centers for
9 senior citizens, at housing projects or developments wherever a substan-
10 tial number of dwelling units are occupied by persons over sixty years
11 of age or at such other suitable place or places as may be designated by
12 the board of education of such school district.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09531-01-7
