Bill Text: NY S02499 | 2017-2018 | 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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02499 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02499-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2499
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens. TEDISCO, BOYLE, CARLUCCI, CROCI, MURPHY, SEWARD --
          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 fourteen -- two thousand fifteen 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.
                                                                   LBD04811-02-7