Bill Text: NY A10034 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-10 - referred to education [A10034 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A10034-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10034
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 10, 2014
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pichardo) --
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 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01327-01-3
