Bill Text: NY S04008 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4008 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to student governments in secondary schools.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04008 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04008-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         4008--C

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. MAYER, COMRIE, FUNKE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, LIU, MAY,
          MONTGOMERY, PERSAUD, RAMOS, SALAZAR, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Educa-
          tion  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  first
          and  second  report,  ordered  to a third reading, amended and ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student governments

          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. Student government. The board of education or trustees of every
     4  school  district  serving  high  school  students in grades nine through
     5  twelve with no districtwide or school  building  peer  selected  student
     6  government  shall establish at least one student government organization
     7  within such district or school building with the goal  of  ensuring  all
     8  eligible  students  have  the opportunity to participate in such student
     9  government.
    10    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    11  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.



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