Requires the approval of the majority of a school's state, federal, city and borough representatives before closing or significantly changing such school.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8001
IN SENATE
March 19, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the approval
of the majority of a school's state, city and borough representatives
before closing or significantly changing such school
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2-a of section 2590-h of the
2 education law, as added by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (e) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (f) of this subdivision,
5 all proposed school closings or significant changes in school utiliza-
6 tion shall be approved by the city board pursuant to section twenty-five
7 hundred ninety-g of this article and by the majority of the (i) member
8 of the assembly, (ii) state senator, (iii) borough president, (iv)
9 member of congress, and (v) city council member who represent the
10 district or borough where such school is located and shall not take
11 effect until all the provisions of this subdivision have been satisfied
12 and the school year in which such [city board] approval was granted, has
13 ended.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
15 the amendments to subdivision 2-a of section 2590-h of the education law
16 made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
17 subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15004-01-8
