Bill Text: NY S07396 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring students in grades seven through twelve to maintain a minimum grade point average as a condition of participation in a school-sponsored club, team or extracurricular organization that regularly meets to practice and/or compete interscholastically.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-27 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07396 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07396-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7396
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 27, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- 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 requiring students  to
          maintain a minimum grade point average as a condition to participation
          in certain school-sponsored clubs, teams or organizations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1604 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 43 to read as follows:
     3    43.  To  adopt  rules, as it may deem necessary, requiring students in
     4  grades seven to twelve to maintain a minimum grade point  average  as  a
     5  condition to participation in a school-sponsored club, team or extracur-
     6  ricular  organization  that  regularly  meets to practice and/or compete
     7  interscholastically.
     8    § 2. Section 1709 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     9  subdivision 43 to read as follows:
    10    43.  To  adopt  rules, as it may deem necessary, requiring students in
    11  grades seven to twelve to maintain a minimum grade point  average  as  a
    12  condition to participation in a school-sponsored club, team or extracur-
    13  ricular  organization  that  regularly  meets to practice and/or compete
    14  interscholastically.
    15    § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 2503 of the education law is amended  by
    16  adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
    17    e.  Shall adopt rules, as it may deem necessary, requiring students in
    18  grades seven to twelve to maintain a minimum grade point  average  as  a
    19  condition to participation in a school-sponsored club, team or extracur-
    20  ricular  organization  that  regularly  meets to practice and/or compete
    21  interscholastically.
    22    § 4. Section 2554 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    23  subdivision 28 to read as follows:
    24    28.  To  adopt  rules, as it may deem necessary, requiring students in
    25  grades seven to twelve to maintain a minimum grade point  average  as  a
    26  condition to participation in a school-sponsored club, team or extracur-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  ricular  organization  that  regularly  meets to practice and/or compete
     2  interscholastically.
     3    §  5.  Section  2590-e of the education law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     5    3-a. adopt rules, as it may  deem  necessary,  requiring  students  in
     6  junior  high  schools  to  maintain  a  minimum grade point average as a
     7  condition to participation in a school-sponsored club, team or extracur-
     8  ricular organization that regularly meets  to  practice  and/or  compete
     9  interscholastically.
    10    §  6. Subdivision 1 of section 2854 of the education law is amended by
    11  adding a new paragraph (d-1) to read as follows:
    12    (d-1) A charter school shall adopt rules, as it  may  deem  necessary,
    13  requiring students in grades seven to twelve to maintain a minimum grade
    14  point  average  as  a  condition  to participation in a school-sponsored
    15  club, team or extracurricular organization that regularly meets to prac-
    16  tice and/or compete interscholastically.
    17    § 7. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the
    18  amendments to section 2590-e of the education law made by  section  five
    19  of  this  act shall survive the expiration and reversion of such section
    20  as provided in section 34 of chapter 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended.