Bill Text: NY A06175 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs commissioner of education to create youth centers with a curriculum for pre-school and after-school students demonstrating educational opportunities and emphasizing good mentoring; provides that the regional youth centers shall be established in each of the five boroughs of the city of New York, in the counties of Albany and Erie and in five other counties to be selected by the commissioner of education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06175 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06175-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6175
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, AUBRY, JAFFEE, COOK, RIVERA -- Multi-Spon-
          sored  by  -- M.  of A. ABBATE, PEOPLES-STOKES, ZEBROWSKI -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishment of youth
          centers for the education of pre-school and after-school students  and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  804-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  804-e.  Comprehensive  pre-school and after-school education demon-
     4  stration program. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to  establish
     5  youth  centers  and promulgate rules and regulations for the implementa-
     6  tion of a demonstration program  and  create  a  curriculum  that  shall
     7  emphasize  and  demonstrate good mentoring and educational opportunities
     8  for pre-school and after-school students.
     9    2. Regional youth training centers for the purpose of implementing the
    10  comprehensive  pre-school  and  after-school   education   demonstration
    11  program shall be established in each of the five boroughs of the city of
    12  New  York, the counties of Albany and Erie and five other counties to be
    13  selected by the commissioner in a geographically balanced manner.
    14    3. Youth training centers  created  pursuant  to  this  section  shall
    15  submit to the commissioner such reports or other information as and when
    16  he shall require.
    17    4.  The  commissioner  shall prepare a report of the activities of the
    18  youth training centers, concerning but not limited to success,  failure,
    19  effect  against crime, drop-out rate, measurable impacts on the students
    20  and future plans therefor and shall transmit such report to the governor
    21  and the legislature on or before July first, two thousand twenty-four.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019 and shall expire July 31,
    23  2024 when upon such date the provisions of  this  act  shall  be  deemed
    24  repealed.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07725-01-9
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