S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5911
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 9, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO, HOOPER, ARROYO -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. LAWRENCE, WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all school
districts to have a certified physical education teacher
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 803 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 118 of the laws of 1957, is amended to read as
follows:
2. The board of education or trustees of every school district regu-
larly employing twenty or more teachers shall employ, WITHIN EVERY
SCHOOL, a teacher or teachers qualified and duly licensed under the
regulations of the regents to give [such] PHYSICAL EDUCATION instruc-
tion[; in every other district of the state, they shall require such
instruction to be given by the teacher or teachers regularly employed to
give instruction in other subjects or by a teacher or teachers qualified
and duly licensed under the regulations of the regents].
S 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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