Bill Text: NY A00302 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sets community service requirements for high school graduation; requires 40 hours or a locally designed program in student community service that has been approved by the education department.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to education [A00302 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A00302-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          302
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  community  service
         requirements for high school graduation
         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 815 to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S 815. SCHOOL BASED SERVICE LEARNING; COMMUNITY  SERVICE  REQUIREMENT.
    4  1.  BEGINNING  WITH  THE  NINTH GRADE CLASS IN THE TWO THOUSAND TEN--TWO
    5  THOUSAND ELEVEN SCHOOL  YEAR,  AND  FOR  EVERY  CLASS  THEREAFTER,  EACH
    6  STUDENT  SHALL  COMPLETE  ONE OF THE FOLLOWING AS A REQUIREMENT FOR HIGH
    7  SCHOOL GRADUATION: (A) FORTY HOURS OF  STUDENT  COMMUNITY  SERVICE  THAT
    8  INCLUDES PREPARATION, ACTION AND REFLECTION COMPONENTS; OR (B) A LOCALLY
    9  DESIGNED  PROGRAM IN STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY
   10  THE COMMISSIONER OR THE COMMISSIONER'S DESIGNEE.
   11    2. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP AND ISSUE GUIDELINES FOR A PROGRAM  OF
   12  STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
   13  SECTION.
   14    3.  EACH LOCAL BOARD OF EDUCATION OR GOVERNING BODY SHALL ADOPT EITHER
   15  (A) A STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM IN COMPLIANCE  WITH  THE  GUIDE-
   16  LINES  ISSUED  UNDER  SUBDIVISION  TWO OF THIS SECTION; OR (B) A LOCALLY
   17  DESIGNED PROGRAM IN STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED  BY
   18  THE COMMISSIONER OR THE COMMISSIONER'S DESIGNEE.
   19    S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
   20  the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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