A05763 Summary:
| BILL NO | A05763 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Brown K |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §§305 & 3604, Ed L | |
| Requires public schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m. and that no public high school within the state shall start before an elementary school starts within the same school district. | |
A05763 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5763 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring public schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m. and that no public high school within the state shall start before an elementary school starts within the same school district 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 amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 63 to read as follows: 3 63. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring 4 all public schools within the state to start no earlier than eight thir- 5 ty a.m. and that no public high school within the state shall start 6 before an elementary school starts within the same school district. 7 § 2. Section 3604 of the education law is amended by adding a new 8 subdivision 8-a to read as follows: 9 8-a. No public school within the state shall be entitled to any 10 portion of such school moneys on such apportionment unless the report of 11 the trustees or board of education for the preceding school year shall 12 show that the public schools started no earlier than eight thirty a.m. 13 and that no high school within such school district started before an 14 elementary school within such school district started. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 16 academic years beginning on and after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09645-01-5