Bill Text: NY A07105 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that public schools need provide alternative instruction to students who are absent due to illness unless exempted by a physician; requires such instruction be given in the same time frame as instruction is given to suspended students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to education [A07105 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07105-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7105
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 12, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  J. MILLER  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to tutoring  of  students
         who have missed school due to illness
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 3205 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
    2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4.  WHERE A STUDENT IS ABSENT FROM SCHOOL DUE TO ILLNESS, SUCH STUDENT
    4  SHALL  BE  PROVIDED  WITH ALTERNATIVE TUTORIAL SERVICES IN THE SAME TIME
    5  FRAME AS SUCH INSTRUCTION IS GIVEN TO STUDENTS WHO  ARE  ABSENT  DUE  TO
    6  SUSPENSION,  AS  PROVIDED IN SECTION THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN OF THIS
    7  ARTICLE. A STUDENT ABSENT DUE TO  ILLNESS  MAY  BE  EXEMPTED  FROM  SUCH
    8  INSTRUCTION  IF HIS OR HER PHYSICIAN DEEMS IT TO BE ADVISABLE. ANY ADDI-
    9  TIONAL COSTS INCURRED BY A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  FOR  ALTERNATIVE  TUTORIAL
   10  SERVICES REQUIRED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE REIMBURSED BY THE DEPART-
   11  MENT.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08181-01-1
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