Relates to the powers and duties of the city board; provides that any city board vote concerning the co-location of a school shall be held in the same borough as the proposed co-location.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7652
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 5, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers and duties
of the city board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-g of the
2 education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (h) approve proposals for all school closures or significant changes
5 in school utilization including the phase-out, grade reconfiguration,
6 re-siting, or co-location of schools, following any hearing pursuant to
7 subdivision two-a of section twenty-five hundred ninety-h of this arti-
8 cle. Any vote by the board approving a proposed co-location of a school
9 shall be held in the same borough as the proposed co-location.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
11 the amendments to paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-g of
12 the education law made by section one of this act shall survive the
13 expiration and reversion of such section as provided in section 34 of
14 chapter 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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