STATE OF NEW YORK
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10101--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 11, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to child
performers in community theater
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 35.01 of the arts and cultural
2 affairs law, as amended by chapter 35 of the laws of 2004, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 2. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
5 to the participation or employment, use or exhibition of any child in a
6 church, academy or school, including a dancing or dramatic school, as
7 part of the regular services or activities thereof respectively; or in
8 the annual graduation exercises of any such academy or school; or in a
9 private home; or in any place where such performance is under the direc-
10 tion, control or supervision of a department of education; or in the
11 performance of radio or television programs in cases where the child or
12 children broadcasting do so from a school, church, academy, museum,
13 library or other religious, civic or educational institution, or for not
14 more than two hours a week from the studios of a regularly licensed
15 broadcasting company, where the performance of the child or children is
16 of a nonprofessional character and occurs during hours when attendance
17 for instruction is not required in accordance with the education law; or
18 at a not-for-profit community theater where the performance of the child
19 or children occurs during hours when attendance for instruction is not
20 required in accordance with the education law, where none of the partic-
21 ipants are members of any performing arts labor organization, and that
22 all performers, not only children, must participate as amateur volun-
23 teers.
24 § 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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