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NY S06138
Bill
Status
3/5/2025
Primary Sponsor
Kevin Parker
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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 the NYC Chancellor to include access for cultural organizations to practice on school grounds in facility access plans, specifically including steel pan music groups
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Opens school facilities for social, civic, and recreational meetings to steel pan organizations as part of community welfare uses, with events remaining non-exclusive and open to the general public
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law, with immediate authorization for rulemaking to implement the program
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Known as 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 NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION
1/7/2026