Bill Text: NY A10101 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits child performers to perform in community theater without having to obtain a permit from the department of labor.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-16 - substituted by s6701b [A10101 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10101-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10101--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 11, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Labor  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to  child
          performers in community theater
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 35.01 of  the  arts  and  cultural
     2  affairs law, as amended by chapter 35 of the laws of 2004, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
     5  to the participation or employment, use or exhibition of any child in  a
     6  church,  academy  or  school, including a dancing or dramatic school, as
     7  part of the regular services or activities thereof respectively;  or  in
     8  the  annual  graduation exercises of any such academy or school; or in a
     9  private home; or in any place where such performance is under the direc-
    10  tion, control or supervision of a department of  education;  or  in  the
    11  performance  of radio or television programs in cases where the child or
    12  children broadcasting do so from  a  school,  church,  academy,  museum,
    13  library or other religious, civic or educational institution, or for not
    14  more  than  two  hours  a  week from the studios of a regularly licensed
    15  broadcasting company, where the performance of the child or children  is
    16  of  a  nonprofessional character and occurs during hours when attendance
    17  for instruction is not required in accordance with the education law; or
    18  at a not-for-profit community theater where the performance of the child
    19  or children occurs during hours when attendance for instruction  is  not
    20  required in accordance with the education law, where none of the partic-
    21  ipants  are  members of any performing arts labor organization, and that
    22  all performers, not only children, must participate  as  amateur  volun-
    23  teers.
    24    § 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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