Bill Text: NY A10417 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits a student to elect to voluntarily repeat a grade if such student missed any in-person instruction as a result of the outbreak of novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-11 - referred to education [A10417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10417-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10417

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 11, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting  a  student
          to voluntarily repeat a grade

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

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 57 to read as follows:
     3    57. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the  commis-
     4  sioner  shall provide that all school districts shall permit any student
     5  may voluntarily elect to repeat the grade  level  such  student  was  in
     6  during the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty school year in the
     7  two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one school year if such student
     8  missed  any  in-person  instruction as a result of the outbreak of novel
     9  coronavirus, COVID-19. Any student who makes such election shall  retain
    10  the  same eligibility to participate in all intramural and interscholas-
    11  tic sports as such student had during  the  two  thousand  nineteen--two
    12  thousand  twenty school year, and shall not be counted against the maxi-
    13  mum number of years such  student  may  participate  in  intramural  and
    14  interscholastic  sports.  In  addition,  the  commissioner shall require
    15  every school district to notify the  parents  and  persons  in  parental
    16  relation  to the students attending such district of the ability to make
    17  an election to voluntarily repeat a grade pursuant to this  subdivision.
    18  Such  notification  may be provided on the school district's website, if
    19  one exists, or as part of an existing  informational  document  that  is
    20  provided to parents and persons in parental relation.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16264-01-0