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S08111 Summary:

BILL NO	S08111
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	JACKSON
COSPNSR	PERSAUD
MLTSPNSR
Amd 305, Ed L
Relates to authorizing and directing the commissioner of education to allow students attending a school closed due to a viral outbreak to receive instructional time for work completed outside of the school.

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S08111 Actions:

BILL NO	S08111
03/23/2020	REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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S08111 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8111
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 23, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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  authorizing  and
          directing  the commissioner of education to allow students attending a
          school closed due to a viral outbreak to  receive  instructional  time
          for work completed outside of the school; and providing for the repeal
          of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
          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 57 to read as follows:
     3    57. The commissioner is authorized and directed  to  promulgate  rules
     4  and  regulations  which  allow  for  instructional  hours  to be accrued
     5  towards the required annual instructional hours and any  other  instruc-
     6  tional hour requirement for the student's grade for the amount of time a
     7  student  spends  completing school work outside of the school while such
     8  school is closed due to a viral outbreak.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    10  deemed repealed December 31, 2020.
 
 
 

 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15858-01-0

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