A 4681: Expands the powers of boards of education to temporarily lease necessary space to include when facilities are under construction.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4681 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'PHARROW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers of boards of education to temporarily lease necessary space The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 1709 of the education law, as 2 added by chapter 130 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows: 3 7. To lease, on a temporary basis, necessary space not located on 4 school property, when the facilities of the district are overcrowded, 5 under construction, or damaged or destroyed, and to furnish and equip 6 such space for school district use. The use of such space shall be 7 subject to annual approval by the commissioner. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 9 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08794-01-5