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A 505: Requires district leadership teams and school leadership teams to include student representatives; provides who should appoint such representatives.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified April 1, 2026

What A 505 does, verified April 1, 2026

The bill aims to establish certain requirements for district leadership teams and school leadership teams in the city of New York. It requires each team to appoint a student representative to serve as a member of the team. Student representatives appointed to district leadership teams are high school students and are appointed by the community superintendent. Student representatives appointed to school leadership teams are student representatives and are appointed by the team's chairperson or co-chairpersons. The bill takes effect on the 90th day after it becomes a law, and allows for the implementation of the act by making necessary changes to rules and regulations on its effective date.

Bill journey
1IntroducedCurrent
2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: enacting clause stricken (2026-03-31)Alert me
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Monique Chandler-WatermanMaritza DavilaBrian CunninghamManny De Los SantosPhara Souffrant ForrestJo Anne SimonAl TaylorLatrice WalkerStefani Zinerman
Recent actions3 total · showing 3
Mar. 31, 2026enacting clause stricken
Jan. 07, 2026referred to cities
Jan. 08, 2025referred to cities
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 288 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 505 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ANDERSON, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, DAVILA, CUNNINGHAM, DE LOS SANTOS, FORREST, SIMON, TAYLOR, WALKER, ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing certain requirements for district leadership teams and school leadership teams The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New 2 York is amended by adding a new chapter 23-A to read as follows: 3 CHAPTER 23-A 4 LEADERSHIP TEAMS 5 § 21-990.1 Student leadership. a. Each district leadership team and 6 school leadership team shall appoint one student representative to serve 7 as members of such teams. 8 b. Student representatives appointed to a district leadership team 9 shall be high school student representatives and shall be appointed by 10 the community superintendent. 11 c. Student representatives appointed to school leadership teams shall 12 be student representatives and shall be appointed by the chairperson or 13 co-chairpersons of such team. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 16 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 17 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 18 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01939-01-5 
Text of A 505 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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