Bill Text: NY A05944 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-15 - enacting clause stricken [A05944 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05944-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5944

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PICHARDO, SAYEGH, TAYLOR, ASHBY, GRIFFIN, HYND-
          MAN, REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  all  school
          districts to have a certified physical education teacher

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section  803  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  118  of  the  laws  of 1957, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. The board of education or trustees of every school  district  regu-
     5  larly  employing  twenty  or  more  teachers  shall employ, within every
     6  school, a teacher or teachers qualified  and  duly  licensed  under  the
     7  regulations  of  the  regents to give [such] physical education instruc-
     8  tion[; in every other district of the state,  they  shall  require  such
     9  instruction to be given by the teacher or teachers regularly employed to
    10  give instruction in other subjects or by a teacher or teachers qualified
    11  and duly licensed under the regulations of the regents].
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07231-01-1