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