File #: Int 0760-2022    Version: Name: Providing water safety instruction to New York city's public school children at no cost.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 10/12/2022
Enactment date: 10/15/2023 Law number: 2023/129
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing water safety instruction to New York city's public school children at no cost
Sponsors: Julie Menin, Shekar Krishnan, Darlene Mealy, Rita C. Joseph, Crystal Hudson, Amanda Farías, Alexa Avilés, Shahana K. Hanif, Shaun Abreu, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Farah N. Louis, Kevin C. Riley, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Mercedes Narcisse, Christopher Marte, Gale A. Brewer, James F. Gennaro, Eric Dinowitz, Linda Lee, Justin L. Brannan, Kamillah Hanks, Sandra Ung, Nantasha M. Williams, Keith Powers , Charles Barron, Diana I. Ayala, Lynn C. Schulman, Erik D. Bottcher, Althea V. Stevens, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Julie Won, Oswald Feliz, Francisco P. Moya, Carlina Rivera , Marjorie Velázquez, Tiffany Cabán, Ari Kagan, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, (by request of the Manhattan Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 39
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation to provide swimming lessons and water safety instruction for free to NYC public school second grade students.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 760-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 760, 3. Int. No. 760, 4. October 12, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-12-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 12, 2022, 7. Committee Report 4/26/23, 8. Hearing Testimony 4/26/23, 9. Hearing Transcript 4/26/23, 10. Proposed Int. No. 760-A - 9/7/23, 11. Committee Report 9/14/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 9/14/23, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. September 14, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-14-23, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 14, 2023, 17. Int. No. 760-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 129
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10/17/2023AJulie Menin City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
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9/14/2023*Julie Menin Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023*Julie Menin Committee on Parks and Recreation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
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4/26/2023*Julie Menin Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/26/2023*Julie Menin Committee on Parks and Recreation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/12/2022*Julie Menin City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 760-A

 

By Council Members Menin, Krishnan, Mealy, Joseph, Hudson, Farías, Avilés, Hanif, Abreu, Gutiérrez, Louis, Riley, Richardson Jordan, Brooks-Powers, Narcisse, Marte, Brewer, Gennaro, Dinowitz, Lee, Brannan, Hanks, Ung, Williams, Powers, Barron, Ayala, Schulman, Bottcher, Stevens, Salamanca, Won, Feliz, Moya, Rivera, Velázquez, Cabán, Kagan and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams) (by request of the Manhattan Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing water safety instruction to New York city's public school children at no cost

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 18-160 to read as follows:

§ 18-160 Water safety instruction provided at no cost. a. Definition. As used in this section, the term “water safety instruction” means a series of lessons designed for students of a particular age group or skill level administered by the department to teach swimming and related water safety awareness, including swim for life or any similar or successor program.

b. Subject to appropriation, staffing requirements, and the availability of adequate facilities, the department, in consultation with the department of education, shall offer water safety instruction at no cost to New York city public school second grade students. Where such instruction takes place at a recreation center under the jurisdiction of the department, necessary employees of the department of education shall not be required to purchase a membership to such recreation center to accompany such students for such instruction.

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

 

 

Session 12

KS

LS #2995

7/26/23 7:30PM

 

Session 11

NC

LS #11704

9/18/19