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Assembly Bill A2971

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to extending the school year to two hundred days exclusive of legal holidays and Saturdays and Sundays

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2009-A2971 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3204, Ed L

2009-A2971 - Summary

Relates to extending the school year to two hundred days exclusive of legal holidays and Saturdays and Sundays.

2009-A2971 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2971

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 22, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Education

AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to extending the school
  year to one hundred ninety school days exclusive of legal holidays

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 3204 of the educa-
tion law is amended to read as follows:
  a. A full time day school or class, except  as  otherwise  prescribed,
shall be in session for not less than one hundred ninety days each year,
[inclusive]  EXCLUSIVE  of  legal holidays that occur during the term of
said school and exclusive of Saturdays AND SUNDAYS, WITH THE SCHOOL YEAR
COMMENCING ON THE LAST MONDAY OF AUGUST.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05793-01-9

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2009-A2971A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3204, Ed L

2009-A2971A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to extending the school year to two hundred days exclusive of legal holidays and Saturdays and Sundays.

2009-A2971A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A2971A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 2971--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 22, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee  on  Education  --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Education in
  accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
  amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
  tee

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to extending  the  school
  year to two hundred school days exclusive of legal holidays

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 3204 of the  educa-
tion law is amended to read as follows:
  a.  A  full  time day school or class, except as otherwise prescribed,
shall be in session for not less than [one] TWO  hundred  [ninety]  days
each year, [inclusive] EXCLUSIVE of legal holidays that occur during the
term  of  said  school  and exclusive of Saturdays AND SUNDAYS, WITH THE
SCHOOL YEAR COMMENCING ON THE LAST MONDAY OF AUGUST.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05793-02-0

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