The New York City Council - File #: Int 0949-2018

• File #: Int 0949-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Creating an office of school integration within the human rights commission.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 5/23/2018
• In control: Committee on Civil and Human Rights
• On agenda: 5/23/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating an office of school integration within the human rights commission dedicated to studying the prevalence and causes of racial segregation in public schools and developing recommendations for remedying such segregation
• Sponsors: Ritchie J. Torres, Helen K. Rosenthal
• Indexes: Oversight, Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/23/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/23/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 949

By Council Members Torres, Lander and Rosenthal

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating an office of school integration within the human rights commission dedicated to studying the prevalence and causes of racial segregation in public schools and developing recommendations for remedying such segregation
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Paragraph c of section 905 of the New York city charter, as added by a vote of the electors on November 6, 2001, is amended to read as follows:
c. (1) to study the problems of prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, discrimination and disorder occasioned thereby in all or any fields of human relationship; and (2) to study the prevalence and causes of racial segregation among kindergarten, primary and secondary public schools and develop recommendations for remedying such segregation.
? 2. Subdivision (3) of section 8-105 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 39 for the year 1991, is amended to read as follows:
(3) (a) To study the problems of prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, discrimination and disorder occasioned thereby in all or any fields of human relationship[.]; and (b) to study the prevalence and causes of racial segregation among kindergarten, primary and secondary public schools and develop recommendations for remedying such segregation.
? 3. Subdivision (8) of section 8-105 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 39 for the year 1991, is amended to read as follows:
(8) To appoint such employees and agents as it deems to be necessary to carry out its functions, powers and duties and to assign to such persons any of such functions, powers and duties; provided, however, that the city shall have an office of school integration to be administered by the commission charged with analyzing and issuing recommendation...