Bill Text: NY S06062 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Students shall be permitted to participate in after-school activities based upon attendance, due to their volunteer work as a firefighter, EMT or ambulance worker.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S06062 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06062-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6062
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to after-school  activity
          participation based on attendance
          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 3207-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3207-b. After-school activity participation based on attendance.  No
     4  student  shall be barred from participation in any after-school activity
     5  if such student arrives late or leaves early from his or her school, due
     6  to such student's engagement in the actual performance  of  his  or  her
     7  duties  in  an emergency as (a) a volunteer firefighter, (b) a volunteer
     8  emergency medical technician, or (c) an enrolled member of  a  volunteer
     9  ambulance  service  pursuant to article thirty of the public health law.
    10  Such student shall provide notification to his  or  her  school  at  the
    11  beginning  of  each  school  year or at the time such approved volunteer
    12  employment commences, whichever  occurs  first,  that  such  student  is
    13  engaged  in volunteer employment. Students shall be permitted to partic-
    14  ipate in after-school activities in accordance  with  this  section,  if
    15  they  are in compliance with school attendance policies and deemed to be
    16  in good academic standing.  Each individual school  system  or  district
    17  shall  promulgate  any  applicable  rules  necessary  to facilitate this
    18  section.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10720-03-7
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