STATE OF NEW YORK
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10034
IN ASSEMBLY
June 10, 2014
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pichardo) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all school
districts to have a certified physical education teacher
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 803 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 118 of the laws of 1957, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. The board of education or trustees of every school district regu-
5 larly employing twenty or more teachers shall employ, within every
6 school, a teacher or teachers qualified and duly licensed under the
7 regulations of the regents to give [such] physical education instruc-
8 tion[; in every other district of the state, they shall require such
9 instruction to be given by the teacher or teachers regularly employed to
10 give instruction in other subjects or by a teacher or teachers qualified
11 and duly licensed under the regulations of the regents].
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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