New York Assembly Bill 8677 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on June 3 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to education
Pending: Assembly Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires governing body of school district, which eliminates certain teaching positions, to eliminate funding for interscholastic sports programs before eliminating classes such as Math, Science, English, Special Education, etc.

Requires governing body of a school district which proposed the elimination of any position of a teacher of science, mathematics, special education, language arts or English language learners, because of economic conditions, to first propose elimination of funding for interscholastic sports; directs the education department to develop and implement plans for the elimination of funding for interscholastic sports programs in school districts which have budget reductions which entail elimination of teaching positions in such subjects.

Asm. Peter Rivera [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to education
2009-06-03		referred to education

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08677&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08677&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A08677