Bill Text: NY A09555 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma to the Excelsior high school diploma.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - reported referred to rules [A09555 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09555-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9555--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ZACCARO, GUNTHER, CRUZ, DAVILA, HEVESI, DeSTEFA-
          NO, MANKTELOW, RAMOS, CHANDLER-WATERMAN,  ZEBROWSKI,  JONES,  BENDETT,
          BURKE,  BROOK-KRASNY  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. REYES -- read
          once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Education  --   committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to changing the name of
          the general education development diploma to the Excelsior high school
          diploma

          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
     2  new subdivision 62 to read as follows:
     3    62. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to  change
     4  the  name  of  the state high school equivalency diploma, as established
     5  pursuant to the commissioner's regulations, to the Excelsior high school
     6  diploma.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law. Effective immediately, the amendment, addition and/or
     9  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    10  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    11  on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14835-04-4