Bill Text: NY A08947 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to allowing all students to participate in a high school graduation ceremony; requires any school board of education to develop policies and procedures to allow all students to participate in a high school graduation ceremony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-12 - substituted by s7311 [A08947 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A08947-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8947 IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing all students to participate in a high school graduation ceremony; and to repeal certain provisions of the education law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 4402 of the education law, as 2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the education law relat- 3 ing to policies that allow students with disabilities to participate in 4 a high school graduation ceremony as proposed in legislative bills 5 numbers S. 4729-A and A. 1595-A, is REPEALED. 6 § 2. Section 3204 of the education law is amended by adding a new 7 subdivision 4-b to read as follows: 8 4-b. The board of education or the board of trustees of each school 9 district shall establish a policy and adopt procedures to allow any 10 student in such district to participate in the graduation ceremony of 11 the student's high school graduating class and all related activities if 12 such student has been awarded a skills and achievement commencement 13 credential or career development and occupational studies commencement 14 credential but has not otherwise qualified for a regents or local diplo- 15 ma. The policy and procedures shall provide annual written notice to all 16 students and their parents or guardians about the school district's 17 policy and procedures adopted in accordance with this subdivision. Noth- 18 ing in this subdivision shall compel a student to participate in the 19 high school graduation ceremony and activities. For purposes of this 20 subdivision, a student's high school graduating class shall be the 21 twelfth grade class with which such student entered into ninth grade. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 23 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the education law 24 relating to policies that allow students with disabilities to partic- 25 ipate in a high school graduation ceremony as proposed in legislative 26 bills numbers S. 4729-A and A. 1595-A, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04000-06-8