New York Senate Bill S06138 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6138 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act". 3 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 414 of the education 4 law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read 5 as follows: 6 (c) For holding social, civic and recreational meetings and enter- 7 tainments, and other uses pertaining to the welfare of the community; 8 but such meetings, entertainment and uses shall be non-exclusive and 9 shall be open to the general public; provided, however, community school 10 boards in the city of New York shall, where reasonable, authorize the 11 use of school grounds during the summer months for use by any steel pan 12 music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian 13 Carnival), consistent with subdivision twenty-seven of section twenty- 14 five hundred ninety-h of this chapter. Civic meetings shall include, but 15 not be limited to, meetings of parent associations and parent-teacher 16 associations. 17 § 3. Subdivision 27 of section 2590-h of the education law, as amended 18 by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 19 27. Promulgate regulations, in conjunction with each community super- 20 intendent, establishing a plan for providing access to school facilities 21 in each community school district, when not in use for school purposes, 22 in accordance with the provisions of section four hundred fourteen of 23 this chapter. Such plan shall include access to school grounds during 24 the summer months for cultural organizations to practice for cultural 25 events, including but not limited to steel pan music organizations to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00012-01-5 
 S. 6138 2 1 practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival). Such plan 2 shall set forth a reasonable system of fees not to exceed the actual 3 costs and specify that no part of any fee shall directly or indirectly 4 benefit or be deposited into an account which inures to the benefit of 5 the custodians or custodial engineers. 6 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 7 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to section 8 2590-h of the education law made by section three of this act shall not 9 affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed repealed ther- 10 ewith. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of 11 any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on 12 its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before 13 such date.