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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8288
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 30, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- 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 providing for not-for-
profit community organizations to use rooms within a public school at
a nominal fee
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 MEETINGS AND EVENTS HELD BY NOT-FOR-PROFIT COMMUNITY ORGANIZA-
4 TIONS.
5 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 414 of the education law, as amended by
6 chapter 513 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
7 2. The trustees or board of education shall determine the terms and
8 conditions for such use which may include rental at least in an amount
9 sufficient to cover all resulting expenses for the purposes of para-
10 graphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (i), (j) and (k) of subdivision one
11 of this section AND WHICH MAY INCLUDE RENTAL IN A NOMINAL AMOUNT SUFFI-
12 CIENT TO COVER ALL RESULTING EXPENSES FOR THE PURPOSES OF PARAGRAPH (L)
13 OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION. Any such use, pursuant to para-
14 graphs (a), (c), (d), (h) and (j) of subdivision one of this section,
15 shall not allow the exclusion of any district child solely because said
16 child is not attending a district school or not attending the district
17 school which is sponsoring such use or on which grounds the use is to
18 occur.
19 § 3. 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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