Bill Text: NY A00440 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 440

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires public schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A00440 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00440-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           440

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  public
          schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m.

          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 60 to read as follows:
     3    60. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations  requiring
     4  all public schools within the state to start no earlier than eight thir-
     5  ty a.m.
     6    §  2.  Section  3604  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     7  subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
     8    8-a. No public school within  the  state  shall  be  entitled  to  any
     9  portion of such school moneys on such apportionment unless the report of
    10  the  trustees  or board of education for the preceding school year shall
    11  show that the public schools started no earlier than eight thirty a.m.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
    13  academic years beginning on and after such date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02478-01-3