Bill Text: NY S06282 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the imposition of community service for students in place of or in conjunction with suspension.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-07 - referred to education [S06282 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S06282-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6282 I N S E N A T E January 9, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FARLEY -- 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 authorizing the option of assigning community service as an alternative to suspension of students or in conjunction thereof 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 3214-a 2 to read as follows: 3 S 3214-A. COMMUNITY SERVICE. AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO OR IN CONJUNCTION 4 WITH THE PROVISIONS AUTHORIZED BY SECTION THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN OF 5 THIS ARTICLE, A BOARD OF EDUCATION, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OR SOLE TRUSTEE, 6 THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OR 7 PRINCIPAL OF A SCHOOL MAY REQUIRE A PUPIL TO PERFORM COMMUNITY SERVICE 8 WHEN, IN HIS OR HER DISCRETION, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, BOARD OF TRUS- 9 TEES OR SOLE TRUSTEE, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, DISTRICT SUPER- 10 INTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OR PRINCIPAL OF A SCHOOL DEEMS THAT THE PERFORMANCE 11 OF SUCH COMMUNITY SERVICE IS APPROPRIATE. 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. LBD11971-02-3