STATE OF NEW YORK
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2229
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- 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 regents competency
examinations
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 319 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 319. Regents competency examinations. Notwithstanding any other law,
4 rule or regulation to the contrary, a student first entering grade nine
5 on or after the two thousand thirteen - two thousand fourteen school
6 year shall be eligible to receive a high school diploma upon completing
7 the requisite number of credits as determined by the commissioner and by
8 passing either a regents competency test or regents examination in
9 English, mathematics, United States history and government, science and
10 global history and geography.
11 § 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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