Bill Text: NY A07041 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires timely approval of capital improvement projects by the department of education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to education [A07041 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07041-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7041
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 21, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to approval of capital
         improvement projects by the department of education
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 408 of the education law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    3    7.  A.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  COMPLETE  AND  RETURN THEIR REVIEW, IN
    4  ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, OF ANY LOCALLY  APPROVED
    5  CAPITAL  IMPROVEMENT PROJECT WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF RECEIVING
    6  A COMPLETED APPLICATION.
    7    B. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION "CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT"  SHALL  MEAN
    8  (I)  ANY  PHYSICAL  PUBLIC  BETTERMENT OR IMPROVEMENT OR ANY PRELIMINARY
    9  STUDIES AND SURVEYS RELATIVE THERETO, OR
   10    (II) LAND OR RIGHTS IN LAND, OR
   11    (III) ANY FURNISHINGS, MACHINERY, APPARATUS OR EQUIPMENT FOR ANY PHYS-
   12  ICAL BETTERMENT OR IMPROVEMENT WHEN SUCH BETTERMENT  OR  IMPROVEMENT  IS
   13  FIRST CONSTRUCTED OR ACQUIRED, OR
   14    (IV)  ANY  COMBINATION  OF  SUBPARAGRAPHS  (I), (II) AND (III) OF THIS
   15  PARAGRAPH.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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