Bill Text: NY S01982 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to suspending state assessments during a state disaster emergency; requires the commissioner of education to suspend state assessments during a state disaster emergency and for thirty days after such emergency has ended.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01982 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01982-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1982

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON,  PERSAUD,  SEPULVEDA  --  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 suspending state
          assessments during a state disaster emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  305 of the education law is amending by adding a
     2  new subdivision 59 to read as follows:
     3    59. Whenever a state disaster emergency is declared pursuant to  arti-
     4  cle  two-B  of  the  executive  law,  the commissioner shall immediately
     5  suspend all state assessments. Such suspension shall  remain  in  effect
     6  for  a  period  of  thirty  days after such state disaster emergency has
     7  ended.
     8    § 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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