Bill Text: NY S02229 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to student eligibility for a high school diploma upon passing either a regents competency test or regents examination in certain subjects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-15 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S02229 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02229-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2229
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- 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  regents  competency
          examinations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 319 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 319. Regents competency examinations. Notwithstanding any other law,
     4  rule or regulation to the contrary, a student first entering grade  nine
     5  on  or  after  the  two thousand thirteen - two thousand fourteen school
     6  year shall be eligible to receive a high school diploma upon  completing
     7  the requisite number of credits as determined by the commissioner and by
     8  passing  either  a  regents  competency  test  or regents examination in
     9  English, mathematics, United States history and government, science  and
    10  global history and geography.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04811-03-7
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