Bill Text: NY A10174 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of education to establish model codes of conduct on school property regarding cellphone use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - referred to education [A10174 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10174-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10174

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to directing the depart-
          ment of education to establish model codes of conduct on school  prop-
          erty regarding cellphone use

          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 2801-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 2801-c. Model codes of conduct on school  property.  The  department
     4  shall, in collaboration with the New York state council of school super-
     5  intendents  and  the  New  York state school boards association, produce
     6  model codes of conduct on school property for  any  building,  structure
     7  and surrounding outdoor grounds, including entrances or exits, contained
     8  within  a  public  or  private pre-school, nursery school, elementary or
     9  secondary school's legally defined property boundaries as registered  in
    10  a  county clerk's office. Such model codes of conduct shall include, but
    11  not be limited to, the use of cellphones by students during school hours
    12  and during classroom instruction. Such model codes shall  be  posted  to
    13  the department's website.
    14    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    15  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    16  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    17  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    18  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.




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