New York A 4257: Relates to providing secondary school pupils and adults in career education programs access to programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair

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A04257 Summary:

BILL NOA04257 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03910

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SPONSORCunningham (MS)

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSRMeeks

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Add §4602-a, Ed L

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Relates to providing secondary school pupils and adults in career education programs access to programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair; establishes the working group on electric vehicle career education achievement.

Go to top A04257 Actions:

BILL NOA04257 

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01/31/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4257

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 31, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
 MEEKS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing secondary
 school pupils and adults in career education programs access to
 programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric
 vehicle maintenance and repair

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 4602-a
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 4602-a. Career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair. 1.
 4 For purposes of this section:
 5 (a) "career major" shall mean a number of courses in a career educa-
 6 tion program which together provide a student with greater technical
 7 skill and a strong academic core and are primarily designed for those
 8 students who are not initially college bound and shall provide them with
 9 alternatives to immediate entrance into a four-year university or
 10 college after high school graduation. A career major shall be linked to
 11 postsecondary options and shall prepare students to pursue either a
 12 degree or certification from a postsecondary institution, an industry-
 13 based training or certification, an apprenticeship, the military, or
 14 immediate entrance into a career field, pursuant to policies adopted by
 15 the commissioner; and
 16 (b) "electric vehicle" shall mean an automotive-type vehicle for
 17 on-road use, such as passenger automobiles, buses, trucks, vans, neigh-
 18 borhood electric vehicles, and electric motorcycles, powered by an elec-
 19 tric motor that draws current from a rechargeable storage battery, fuel
 20 cell, photovoltaic array, or other source of electric current which is
 21 charged by being plugged into an electrical source. For the purposes of
 22 this section, off-road, self-propelled electric vehicles, such as indus-
 23 trial trucks, hoists, lifts, transports, golf carts, airline ground

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05620-01-5

 A. 4257 2

 1 support equipment, tractors, and boats, are not included in the defi-
 2 nition of "electric vehicle".
 3 2. The board of education of each school district shall develop career
 4 major programs of study in electric vehicle maintenance and repair,
 5 available to all secondary school pupils and adults in career education
 6 programs, in accordance with a phase-in schedule as determined by
 7 reports from the working group established under subdivision three of
 8 this section. Every career education school in the state shall adminis-
 9 ter a number of classes necessary to meet the requirements of a career
 10 major and provide instruction designed to educate students on electric
 11 vehicle maintenance and repair. These courses shall also be offered to
 12 each high school student enrolled in a school district that offers a
 13 career major program. The courses contained in the electric vehicle
 14 maintenance and repair career major shall be defined and administered by
 15 the board of education of each school district after consultation with
 16 the working group, as provided in subdivision three of this section.
 17 3. (a) No later than sixty days following the effective date of this
 18 section, the public service commission shall establish the working gr