Relates to the issuance of diplomas to youth who are placed, committed, supervised, detained or confined in certain facilities; provides that persons under twenty-one years of age who are placed with, committed to, under the supervision of, detained or otherwise confined in certain facilities, who participate in an educational program provided by such facilities, shall be issued a high school diploma upon completion of the minimum New York state diploma requirements.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7101
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 1, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. BRISPORT -- (at request of the State Education
Department) -- 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 the issuance of diplo-
mas to youth who are placed, committed, supervised, detained or
confined in certain facilities
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 112-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 112-a. Students confined in certain facilities; responsibility for
4 issuance of diplomas. 1. A person under twenty-one years of age who has
5 not received a high school diploma and who is placed with, committed to,
6 under the supervision of, detained or otherwise confined in any facility
7 operated by a state department or agency or political subdivision which
8 provides educational programs pursuant to section one hundred twelve of
9 this article, or who is confined in a correctional facility, as defined
10 in subdivision four of section two of the correction law, and who
11 participates in an educational program provided by such facility, shall
12 be issued a high school diploma by the school district of location when
13 such school district has determined that such person has completed the
14 minimum New York state diploma requirements as set forth in the regu-
15 lations of the commissioner while placed with, committed to, under the
16 supervision of, detained or confined in such facility.
17 2. For purposes of this section the term "school district of location"
18 means the school district in which the facility where such youth is
19 placed, committed, supervised, detained or confined is located.
20 § 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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