Bill Text: NY A00628 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes Diwali as a school holiday in public schools in the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-12 - reference changed to education [A00628 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00628-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         628--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. RAJKUMAR, RAGA, ROZIC, TAYLOR, TAPIA, LEE, KIM,
          BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SEAWRIGHT, BRAUNSTEIN, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  CUNNINGHAM,
          BURGOS,  CRUZ, SHRESTHA, LAVINE, PHEFFER AMATO, BORES, AUBRY, ALVAREZ,
          GALLAGHER,  DILAN,  SANTABARBARA,  ANDERSON,  D. ROSENTHAL,   SEPTIMO,
          JOYNER,  HYNDMAN, LUCAS, SAYEGH, WEPRIN, KELLES, GLICK, BEEPHAN, FALL,
          GIBBS, DE LOS SANTOS, REYES, HEVESI, EPSTEIN, CARROLL -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to certain  school  holi-
          days; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 2586 of the education law is REPEALED.
     2    § 2. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as  amended
     3  by chapter 424 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2-a. The superintendent of each city school district, in a city having
     5  a  population  in  excess  of one million, shall prepare a public school
     6  calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which trans-
     7  portation has been requested not later than the first  day  of  June  in
     8  each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session in
     9  the following school year. Such school district which provides transpor-
    10  tation  to  nonpublic  schools shall provide such transportation for the
    11  same number of days as the public schools are open but shall not provide
    12  transportation services for more than one hundred eighty  days.    Offi-
    13  cials  of each nonpublic school to which transportation is provided by a
    14  city school district of a city having a  population  in  excess  of  one
    15  million  may  notify such district, not later than the first day of July
    16  of each school year, of a maximum of five days, exclusive of  Saturdays,
    17  Sundays  or  legal holidays upon which public schools are required to be
    18  closed, on which the public schools are scheduled to be  closed,  except

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  that  in  any year in which the first or last day of Passover and Easter
     2  Sunday are separated by more than seven days, such officials may  notify
     3  the  district of a maximum of ten days, but such school district will be
     4  required to provide for transportation to such nonpublic school provided
     5  that  such  five  or  ten  additional days, whichever is applicable, are
     6  limited to the following: the Tuesday, Wednesday,  Thursday  and  Friday
     7  after  Labor  Day,  Rosh  Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the week in which public
     8  schools are closed for spring recess,  December  twenty-fourth  and  the
     9  week  between Christmas day and New Year's day, and the Tuesday, Wednes-
    10  day, Thursday and Friday after the observance of Washington's birthday[,
    11  and, in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens  only,  Anniversary  Day  as
    12  designated in section twenty-five hundred eighty-six of this chapter].
    13    §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    14  the date on which it shall have become a law.