Bill Text: NY A08806 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing students an opportunity to take regents examinations if missed due to school closure.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A08806 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08806-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8806

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing students an
          opportunity to take regents  examinations  if  missed  due  to  school
          closure

          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  208-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  208-b. Alternative regents exam testing days due to school closure.
     4  Any school district that is closed due to an emergency during a  regents
     5  examination  period is required to provide any student qualified to take
     6  such exam as set forth in 8 NYCRR 8.2 an opportunity to  take  the  exam
     7  missed within thirty days from the date of the original examination. The
     8  board  of regents shall select the date for the regents exams and notify
     9  school districts of the make-up date and locations. For purposes of this
    10  section, "emergency" shall be defined as a situation that poses an imme-
    11  diate risk to health, life, or property that causes a school district to
    12  close.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    14  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    15  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    16  for the implementation of this act on its effective date is directed  to
    17  be made and completed on or before such effective date.



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