Bill Text: NY S01986 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes and directs 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01986 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01986-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1986 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 18, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, PERSAUD -- 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 This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 10 deemed repealed December 31, 2023. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05331-01-3