Bill Text: NY A03560 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes school district property to be used for not-for-profit dental clinics providing care to families in the district upon the approval of the trustees or board of education of a school district.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A03560 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03560-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3560 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, LIFTON, ORTIZ, JAFFEE, OTIS -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, CROUCH, GANTT, HAWLEY, PERRY, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the use of schoolhouses and grounds by not-for-profit dental clinics 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 414 of the education law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows: 3 (l) For approved school dental clinics. 4 (i) For purposes of this paragraph the following terms shall mean: 5 (A) "Approved school dental clinic" means a not-for-profit clinic that 6 will provide services during school hours and/or non-school hours to 7 school-age and pre-school children. 8 (B) "Services" means dental services and shall not include instruc- 9 tional services unless the individual is certified or licensed to teach. 10 (C) "School" means a public school district, board of cooperative 11 educational services or county vocational education and extension board. 12 (ii) Health professionals who provide services in approved school 13 dental health clinics shall be duly licensed pursuant to the provisions 14 of title eight of this chapter, unless otherwise exempted by law, and 15 shall be authorized to provide such services to the extent permitted by 16 their respective practice acts. 17 (iii) Except where otherwise authorized by law, the cost of providing 18 dental health services pursuant to this paragraph shall not be a charge 19 upon the school district. Building space used exclusively for such a 20 clinic shall be excluded from the rated capacity of the school building 21 for the purpose of computing building aid pursuant to subdivision six of 22 section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter. 23 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 414 of the education law, as amended by 24 chapter 513 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00412-01-9A. 3560 2 1 2. The trustees or board of education shall determine the terms and 2 conditions for such use which may include rental at least in an amount 3 sufficient to cover all resulting expenses for the purposes of para- 4 graphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (i), (j) [and], (k) and (l) of 5 subdivision one of this section. Any such use, pursuant to paragraphs 6 (a), (c), (d), (h) [and], (j) and (l) of subdivision one of this 7 section, shall not allow the exclusion of any district child solely 8 because said child is not attending a district school or not attending 9 the district school which is sponsoring such use or on which grounds the 10 use is to occur. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
