2012 Conference Executive Record Report.pdf - YMCA of Greater ...

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STATE OF NEW YORK
YMCA YOUTH AND GOVERNMENT
BILL NUMBER AF - 39
INTRODUCED BY: Ravyn Santiago and Kaylin Parisi
AN ACT
TO: Require all New York State street vendors to adopt the New York City policy , to obtain a positive letter grade from
the department of health inspectors in order to maintain their street vendor license.
The People of the State of New York, represented in the
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Purpose
This bill will require all New York State street vendors to be rated in a similar, if not exactly the same manner as
New York City restaurants, with the letter grade sanitary inspection system. The street vendors will receive a letter grade
determined by their health conditions, and they must publicly display their letter grade for customers to see how clean the
street vendor conditions are.
Summary of Provisions
Section 1
Street Vendor: A seller of goods in small amounts to consumers without having a fixed retail location
Letter Grade System: Sanitary inspection results given to a place that sells, cook , and prepares food, like a restaurant,
from an inspector from the department of health based on the place health conditions.
Prepare: Make (food or a meal) ready for cooking or eating.
Section 2
To remain in business, street vendors must receive and maintain a positive letter grade from sanitary inspectors that
inspect their health conditions. Sanitary inspector will not only be inspecting a street vendor on their health conditions but
also will be scoring them on the street vendor sanitary conditions, giving them a letter such as A,B, or C. This will cause
street vendors to receive a letter grade from the health inspectors just like a restaurants will receive based on the sanitary
conditions. This will also require street vendors to maintain a satisfactory grade “A” to keep their street vendor license.
Justification
There are 4,000 to 6,000 street vendors found in New York State today. New York State has had several reports of
customers that purchase street vendor food that has been ill from eating there food. Customers have caught food
poisoning, other diseases, itching skin, etc. Also, within the last year there has been about 2,575 violations that came
from street vendors alone .If customers had knowledge of the conditions of witch their food was coming from before
purchase, some of these cases, if not all, could have been avoided. New York State should aim towards keeping its
citizens safe and make sure know as much knowledge's as they can about the food they eat and spend their money on, by
having a letter grade system for street vendor inspections. This system that will cost the state nothing and will bring
knowledge to its citizens.
Fiscal Implications
This bill will not have a financial impact on New York State residents. This bill will only require inspectors to
include the letter grade system into their inspections for street vendors and giving them a letter grade.
Effective Date
This bill will go into effect immediately after it is passed
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STATE OF NEW YORK
YMCA YOUTH AND GOVERNMENT
BILL NUMBER AF - 40
INTRODUCED BY: Molly Schoder, Olivia Seamans, Sarah Calzada
AN ACT
TO: Amend an unfunded special education mandate in order to make it non mandatory for high schools of a Class C population
and under to be required to have one special education teacher for each core subject.
The People of the State of New York, represented in the
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Purpose
Amend a government mandate, which requires a special education teacher for each core subject in high schools. Class C and D
schools would be exempt from the future law.
– Schools of Class C populations and under would be wasting budget money on unneeded teachers if this mandate were
passed excluding this amendment.
– With the passage of our amendment, it will save high schools from spending more budget money than is already spent on
special education and salaries of teachers.
Summary of Provisions
Section 1
Charter School- a primary or secondary school that receives public money but are not subject to some of the rules, regulations,
and statutes that applies to other public schools.
Class C population- 175-300 high school students
Class D population- 1-174 high school students
Race to the Top Fund- a competition between the 50 states and their local school districts that focuses on the improvement of
students’ education and the effectiveness of teachers of the United States.
Section 2
Amend a government mandate, which requires a special education teacher for each core subject in high schools. Class C and D
schools would be exempt from the future law.
– Schools of Class C populations and under would be wasting budget money on unneeded teachers if this mandate were
passed excluding this amendment.
– With the passage of our amendment, it will save high schools from spending more budget money than is already spent on
special education and salaries of teachers.
Justification
The average salary of a special education teacher is about $51,000. With the passage of this bill, many small schools will
be saved from spending unnecessary budget money to pay these new teachers that the school would be required to hire if
this bill is not passed.
Fiscal Implications
With the passage of this bill, no money will be spent in any way. The purpose of this bill is to prevent the
unnecessary spending of money.
Effective Date
Our bill will go into effect as soon as this government mandate is passed by legislation.