Bill Text: NY A04289 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a regularly scheduled time for recess every day for elementary school students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A04289 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04289-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4289
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring recess every
          day for elementary school students
          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 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  817.  Recess.  Each  school  shall  regularly  schedule a time of a
     4  reasonable length within each school day for each full day pupil attend-
     5  ing pre-kindergarten through grade six to engage in physical activity in
     6  an unstructured free play session monitored by a staff of school employ-
     7  ees or volunteers.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08323-01-9