Bill Text: NY A07576 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the issuance of diplomas to youth who are placed, committed, supervised, detained or confined in certain facilities; provides that persons under twenty-one years of age who are placed with, committed to, under the supervision of, detained or otherwise confined in certain facilities, who participate in an educational program provided by such facilities, shall be issued a high school diploma upon completion of the minimum New York state diploma requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-22 - approval memo.117 [A07576 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07576-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7576

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 14, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE -- (at request of the State Education
          Department) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the issuance of diplo-
          mas  to  youth  who  are  placed,  committed,  supervised, detained or
          confined in certain facilities

          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 112-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 112-a. Students confined in certain facilities;  responsibility  for
     4  issuance  of diplomas. 1. A person under twenty-one years of age who has
     5  not received a high school diploma and who is placed with, committed to,
     6  under the supervision of, detained or otherwise confined in any facility
     7  operated by a state department or agency or political subdivision  which
     8  provides  educational programs pursuant to section one hundred twelve of
     9  this article, or who is confined in a correctional facility, as  defined
    10  in  subdivision  four  of  section  two  of  the correction law, and who
    11  participates in an educational program provided by such facility,  shall
    12  be  issued a high school diploma by the school district of location when
    13  such school district has determined that such person has  completed  the
    14  minimum  New  York  state diploma requirements as set forth in the regu-
    15  lations of the commissioner while placed with, committed to,  under  the
    16  supervision of, detained or confined in such facility.
    17    2. For purposes of this section the term "school district of location"
    18  means  the  school  district  in  which the facility where such youth is
    19  placed, committed, supervised, detained or confined is located.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10077-01-1