Senate Bill S7841

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the issuance of diplomas to youth who are placed, committed, supervised, detained or confined in certain facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A8706 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S7841 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8706
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §112-a, Ed L (as proposed in S.7101 & A.7576)

2021-S7841 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the issuance of diplomas to youth who are placed, committed, supervised, detained or confined in certain facilities; makes an exception for the issuance of diplomas by programming provided by another school district, in that case such district shall issue the diploma.

2021-S7841 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7841 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7841
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the issuance of diplo-
   mas to youth  who  are  placed,  committed,  supervised,  detained  or
   confined in certain facilities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 112-a of the education law, as added by  a  chapter
 of  the laws of 2021 amending the education law relating to the issuance
 of diplomas to youth who are placed, committed, supervised, detained  or
 confined in certain facilities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
 S. 7101 and A. 7576, is amended to read as follows:
   §  112-a.  Students confined in certain facilities; responsibility for
 issuance of diplomas. 1. A person under twenty-one years of age who  has
 not received a high school diploma and who is placed with, committed to,
 under the supervision of, detained or otherwise confined in any facility
 operated  OR  ADMINISTERED  by a state department or agency or political
 subdivision OF THE STATE which provides educational programs pursuant to
 section one hundred twelve of this article, or  who  is  confined  in  a
 correctional  facility, as defined in subdivision four of section two of
 the correction law, and  who  participates  in  an  educational  program
 provided  by such facility, shall be issued a high school diploma by the
 school district of location EXCEPT when  [such]  CREDIT  BEARING  EDUCA-
 TIONAL  PROGRAMMING  IS PROVIDED BY ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT. WHEN CREDIT
 BEARING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING IS PROVIDED BY ANOTHER SCHOOL  DISTRICT,
 THAT  DISTRICT SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ISSUING THE HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA.
 THE school district [has determined that] RESPONSIBLE  FOR  ISSUING  THE
 DIPLOMA MUST DETERMINE IF such person has completed the minimum New York
 state  diploma  requirements  as  set  forth  in  the regulations of the
 commissioner while placed with, committed to, under the supervision  of,
 detained or confined in such facility.
   2. For purposes of this section the term "school district of location"
 means  the  school  district  in  which the facility where such youth is
 placed, committed, supervised, detained or confined is located.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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