Bill Text: NY S00944 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 944 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00944 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00944-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          944
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  all  school
         districts to have a certified physical education teacher
         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  803  of  the  education  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  118  of  the  laws  of 1957, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    2. The board of education or trustees of every school  district  regu-
    5  larly  employing  twenty  or  more  teachers  shall employ, WITHIN EVERY
    6  SCHOOL, a teacher or teachers qualified  and  duly  licensed  under  the
    7  regulations  of  the  regents to give [such] PHYSICAL EDUCATION instruc-
    8  tion[; in every other district of the state,  they  shall  require  such
    9  instruction to be given by the teacher or teachers regularly employed to
   10  give instruction in other subjects or by a teacher or teachers qualified
   11  and duly licensed under the regulations of the regents].
   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.
                                                                  LBD01327-01-3