Bill Text: NY A05655 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to provide for the proportionate availability of adequate school supplies for use by left-handed students where adequate supplies are available for use by right-handed students; applies to any school supplies and equipment purchased by the department or schools on or after the effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A05655 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A05655-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5655 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing for the availability of adequate supplies for left-handed students 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 57 to read as follows: 3 57. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to provide 4 for the proportionate availability of adequate school supplies and 5 equipment for use by left-handed students where adequate supplies and 6 equipment are available for use by right-handed students. The rules and 7 regulations promulgated pursuant to this subdivision shall apply to any 8 school supplies and equipment purchased by the department or schools on 9 or after the effective date of such rules and regulations. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07910-01-1
