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NY A00194
Bill
Status
1/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Brian Cunningham
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AI Summary
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Requires New York City community school boards to authorize, where reasonable, the use of school grounds during summer months for steel pan music organizations to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival)
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Mandates that NYC school facility access plans include provisions for cultural organizations to use school grounds during summer for practicing for cultural events
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Amends Education Law section 414 to expand permitted community uses of school facilities to include steel pan music practice
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law, with immediate authorization for implementing regulations
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Officially titled the "New York City Caribbean Steel Pan Educational Music Program Act"
Legislative Description
Enacts the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"; requires community school boards in the city of New York to authorize, where reasonable, the use of school grounds in the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival).
Last Action
referred to education
1/7/2026