Directs the commissioner of education to promulgate and review as necessary rules and regulations allowing trustees and boards of education of schools with a robotics program to conduct interschool robotics competitions for grades nine through twelve equivalent to the interschool athletic competitions conducted by such schools.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7726--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 1, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing inter-
school robotics competitions for certain schools
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 and review as necessary rules
4 and regulations allowing trustees and boards of education of schools
5 with a robotics program to conduct interschool robotics competitions for
6 grades nine through twelve equivalent to the interschool athletic compe-
7 titions conducted by such schools.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
9 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
10 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
11 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
12 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11696-02-6
