Bill Text: NY S08168 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to suspending state assessments during a state disaster emergency; requires the commissioner of education to suspend state assessments during a state disaster emergency and for thirty days after such emergency has ended.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-13 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S08168 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08168-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8168

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 13, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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  suspending  state
          assessments during a state disaster emergency

          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 amending  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 59 to read as follows:
     3    59.  Whenever a state disaster emergency is declared pursuant to arti-
     4  cle two-B of the  executive  law,  the  commissioner  shall  immediately
     5  suspend  all  state  assessments. Such suspension shall remain in effect
     6  for a period of thirty days after  such  state  disaster  emergency  has
     7  ended.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15893-01-0