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
