Bill Text: NY A09369 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Gives a receiving school discretion to continue or discontinue the suspension of a pupil for the remainder of the school year when such suspension followed a hearing by the superintendent, district superintendent or community superintendent of schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-24 - referred to education [A09369 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A09369-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9369
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 24, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the enforcement by a
receiving school of the suspension of a pupil for the remainder of the
school year
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 3214 of the educa-
2 tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 3 to read as follows:
3 (3) WHERE A PUPIL HAS BEEN SUSPENDED, AFTER A HEARING, BY A SUPER-
4 INTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, OR COMMUNITY
5 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH ONE OF THIS SUBDIVI-
6 SION, FOR A PERIOD THAT IS EQUAL TO OR EXCEEDS THE PERIOD OF TIME
7 REMAINING IN THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR, AND SUCH STUDENT SEEKS ENROLLMENT
8 IN A RECEIVING SCHOOL, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OR SOLE
9 TRUSTEE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
10 OR THE PRINCIPAL OF SUCH RECEIVING SCHOOL SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO
11 CONTINUE OR DISCONTINUE SUCH SUSPENSION ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS.
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.
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