STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5864 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 20, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. THOMAS, MATTERA -- 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 career and technical education courses provided by boards of cooperative educational services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that 2 career and technical education courses operated by a board of cooper- 3 ative educational services provide unique educational and career oppor- 4 tunities for students. Students from local districts should have the 5 opportunity to enroll in such courses offered by boards of cooperative 6 educational services. Therefore, it is in the best interests of the 7 students in each local district to apply and, if accepted, to enroll in 8 career and technical education programs operated by boards of cooper- 9 ative educational services without prior approval from the local board 10 of education. 11 § 2. Section 4602 of the education law is amended by adding a new 12 subdivision 6 to read as follows: 13 6. Each board of cooperative educational services shall be authorized 14 to enroll students from each local school district in career and techni- 15 cal education courses if such students are accepted to such courses. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08651-01-3