Bill Text: NY S06282 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the imposition of community service for students in place of or in conjunction with suspension.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-07 - referred to education [S06282 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06282-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6282
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 9, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  FARLEY -- 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 authorizing the option
         of assigning community service as  an  alternative  to  suspension  of
         students or in conjunction thereof
         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 3214-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 3214-A. COMMUNITY SERVICE. AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO  OR  IN  CONJUNCTION
    4  WITH THE PROVISIONS AUTHORIZED BY SECTION THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN OF
    5  THIS  ARTICLE,  A BOARD OF EDUCATION, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OR SOLE TRUSTEE,
    6  THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, DISTRICT  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  SCHOOLS  OR
    7  PRINCIPAL  OF  A SCHOOL MAY REQUIRE A PUPIL TO PERFORM COMMUNITY SERVICE
    8  WHEN, IN HIS OR HER DISCRETION, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, BOARD  OF  TRUS-
    9  TEES  OR  SOLE  TRUSTEE,  THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, DISTRICT SUPER-
   10  INTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OR PRINCIPAL OF A SCHOOL DEEMS THAT THE PERFORMANCE
   11  OF SUCH COMMUNITY SERVICE IS APPROPRIATE.
   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.
                                                                  LBD11971-02-3
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