File #: Int 0403-2022    Version: Name: Requiring the department of education to distribute IDNYC applications to all high school students.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 5/19/2022
Enactment date: 4/16/2023 Law number: 2023/048
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to distribute IDNYC applications to all high school students
Sponsors: Rita C. Joseph, Althea V. Stevens, Lynn C. Schulman, Shahana K. Hanif, Diana I. Ayala, Crystal Hudson, Gale A. Brewer, Farah N. Louis, Sandra Ung, Sandy Nurse, Christopher Marte, Alexa Avilés, Kevin C. Riley, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Shekar Krishnan, Eric Dinowitz, Charles Barron, Chi A. Ossé, Amanda Farías, Shaun Abreu, Lincoln Restler, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Linda Lee, James F. Gennaro, Mercedes Narcisse, Julie Won, Julie Menin, Kamillah Hanks, Marjorie Velázquez, Carlina Rivera , Inna Vernikov
Council Member Sponsors: 32
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to distribute information about the IDNYC municipal identification program to every student grades 9 through 12 at the start of each school year. At a minimum, this legislation would require DOE to provide every student with an IDNYC application form, as well as information about IDNYC eligibility requirements, the application process, including but not limited to a list of documents accepted to prove IDNYC identity and residency requirements, and the relevant benefits and discounts provided to IDNYC cardholders.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 403-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 403, 3. Int. No. 403, 4. May 19, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-19-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 19, 2022, 7. Committee Report 1/25/23, 8. Hearing Testimony 1/25/23, 9. Hearing Transcript 1/25/23, 10. Proposed Int. No. 403-A - 3/10/23, 11. Committee Report 3/16/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 3/16/23, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. March 16, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-16-23, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 16, 2023, 17. Int. No. 403-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 48
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5/19/2022*Rita C. Joseph City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 403-A

 

By Council Members Joseph, Stevens, Schulman, Hanif, Ayala, Hudson, Brewer, Louis, Ung, Nurse, Marte, Avilés, Riley, De La Rosa, Krishnan, Dinowitz, Barron, Ossé, Farías, Abreu, Restler, Richardson Jordan, Sanchez, Lee, Gennaro, Narcisse, Won, Menin, Hanks, Velázquez, Rivera and Vernikov

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to distribute IDNYC applications to all high school students

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 30 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 30

DISTRIBUTION OF IDNYC MUNICIPAL IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM MATERIALS

§ 21-1001 Distribution of IDNYC municipal identification program materials. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

IDNYC. The term “IDNYC” means the New York city identity card established pursuant to section 3-115.

                     School. The term “school” means a school of the city school district of the city of New York that contains any combination of grades from and including grade 9 through grade 12.

                     b. At the start of each school year, the department shall distribute to each school, for distribution to every student of such school, information related to the IDNYC program. Distribution of such information to schools and students may be in hard copy or electronic if distribution of other similar information occurs electronically. At a minimum, such information shall include the IDNYC application form and information on: (i) eligibility requirements; (ii) the application process, including but not limited to a list of documents accepted to prove identity and residency; and (iii) relevant benefits and discounts provided to IDNYC cardholders.

                     c. The department shall make available the information required to be distributed pursuant to subdivision b of this section on the department’s website in English and in each of the designated citywide languages, as such term is defined in subdivision a of section 23-1101.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

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