Bill Text: NY A00834 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to student eligibility for a high school diploma upon passing either a regents competency test or regents examination in certain subjects.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 16-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A00834 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00834-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 834 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALSH, ASHBY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. B. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to regents competency examinations 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 319 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 319. Regents competency examinations. Notwithstanding any other law, 4 rule or regulation to the contrary, a student first entering grade nine 5 in the two thousand sixteen -- two thousand seventeen school year shall 6 be eligible to receive a high school diploma upon completing the requi- 7 site number of credits as determined by the commissioner and by passing 8 either a regents competency test or regents examination in English, 9 mathematics, United States history and government, science and global 10 history and geography. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02836-01-9