Bill Text: NY S00177 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to student eligibility for a high school diploma upon passing either a regents competency test or regents examination in certain subjects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00177 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00177-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           177

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  TEDISCO, BOYLE -- 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  regents  competency
          examinations

          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 319 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 319. Regents competency examinations. Notwithstanding any other law,
     4  rule or regulation to the contrary, a student first entering grade  nine
     5  in  the two thousand eighteen -- two thousand nineteen school year shall
     6  be eligible to receive a high school diploma upon completing the  requi-
     7  site  number of credits as determined by the commissioner and by passing
     8  either a regents competency test  or  regents  examination  in  English,
     9  mathematics,  United  States  history and government, science and global
    10  history and geography.
    11    § 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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