STATE OF NEW YORK
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177
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, BOYLE -- 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 in the two thousand eighteen -- two thousand nineteen school year shall
6 be eligible to receive a high school diploma upon completing the requi-
7 site number of credits as determined by the commissioner and by passing
8 either a regents competency test or regents examination in English,
9 mathematics, United States history and government, science and global
10 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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