Bill Text: NY A06091 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to student governments in secondary schools that have no districtwide or school building peer selected student government.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-01 - substituted by s1732 [A06091 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06091-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6091

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student governments

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 817. Student government. The board of education or trustees of every
     4  school  district  serving  high  school  students in grades nine through
     5  twelve with no districtwide or school  building  peer  selected  student
     6  government  shall establish at least one student government organization
     7  within such district or school building with the goal  of  ensuring  all
     8  eligible  students  have  the opportunity to participate in such student
     9  government.
    10    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    11  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02370-01-3