Bill Text: NY A02456 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Exempts students participating in interscholastic sports from physical education classes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A02456 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02456-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2456
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to exemption  from  phys-
          ical  education  classes for students participating in interscholastic
          sports
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  803 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 118 of the laws  of  1957,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  All  pupils  above  the  age  of eight years in all elementary and
     5  secondary schools, shall receive as part of the  prescribed  courses  of
     6  instruction  therein  such physical education under the direction of the
     7  commissioner of education as the regents  may  determine.  Such  courses
     8  shall  be designed to aid in the well-rounded education of pupils and in
     9  the development of character, citizenship, physical fitness, health  and
    10  the  worthy  use  of leisure. Pupils above such age attending the public
    11  schools shall be required to attend  upon  such  prescribed  courses  of
    12  instruction.    Pupils  participating in interscholastic sports shall be
    13  exempt, only for the duration of the interscholastic sport season,  from
    14  the prescribed courses of physical education required by this section.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07652-01-7
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