STATE OF NEW YORK
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2456
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to exemption from phys-
ical education classes for students participating in interscholastic
sports
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 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 1. All pupils above the age of eight years in all elementary and
5 secondary schools, shall receive as part of the prescribed courses of
6 instruction therein such physical education under the direction of the
7 commissioner of education as the regents may determine. Such courses
8 shall be designed to aid in the well-rounded education of pupils and in
9 the development of character, citizenship, physical fitness, health and
10 the worthy use of leisure. Pupils above such age attending the public
11 schools shall be required to attend upon such prescribed courses of
12 instruction. Pupils participating in interscholastic sports shall be
13 exempt, only for the duration of the interscholastic sport season, from
14 the prescribed courses of physical education required by this section.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07652-01-7
