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NY S 6138

in committee

Enacts the New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

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).

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-06-05 — COMMITTED TO RULES
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Kevin S. Parkerprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-03-05

    REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-05-27

    1ST REPORT CAL.1306

  3. 2025-05-28

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  4. 2025-05-29

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2025-06-13

    COMMITTED TO RULES

    referral-committee

  6. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION

    referral-committee

  7. 2026-05-19

    1ST REPORT CAL.1171

  8. 2026-05-20

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  9. 2026-05-21

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  10. 2026-06-05

    COMMITTED TO RULES

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • New York City Education Vote

    2025-05-27 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (6)
    • Stephen T. Chan: yes
    • Robert Jackson: yes
    • John Liu: yes
    • Luis R. Sepúlveda: yes
    • James Tedisco: yes
    • Roxanne J. Persaud: yes

  • New York City Education Vote

    2026-05-19 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Stephen T. Chan: yes
    • Robert Jackson: yes
    • John Liu: yes
    • Roxanne J. Persaud: yes
    • Luis R. Sepúlveda: yes
    • Sam Sutton: yes
    • James Tedisco: yes

Related bills

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S6138?summary=&detail=

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