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Senate Bill S4555

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Rescinds the anniversary day school holiday for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens

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2015-S4555 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7184
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §2586, amd §3635, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S5217, A1199

2015-S4555 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Rescinds the anniversary day school holiday for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

2015-S4555 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4555 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4555

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. STAVISKY, SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to rescinding  the  anni-
  versary  day  school  holiday for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens;
  and to repeal section 2586 of the education law relating thereto

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

  Section 1. Section 2586 of the education law is REPEALED.
  S  2. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as amended
by chapter 424 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  2-a. The superintendent of each city school district, in a city having
a population in excess of one million, shall  prepare  a  public  school
calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which trans-
portation  has  been  requested  not later than the first day of June in
each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session in
the following school year. Such school district which provides transpor-
tation to nonpublic schools shall provide such  transportation  for  the
same number of days as the public schools are open but shall not provide
transportation  services  for  more than one hundred eighty days.  Offi-
cials of each nonpublic school to which transportation is provided by  a
city  school  district  of  a  city having a population in excess of one
million may notify such district, not later than the first day  of  July
of  each school year, of a maximum of five days, exclusive of Saturdays,
Sundays or legal holidays upon which public schools are required  to  be
closed,  on  which the public schools are scheduled to be closed, except
that in any year in which the first or last day of Passover  and  Easter
Sunday  are separated by more than seven days, such officials may notify
the district of a maximum of ten days, but such school district will  be
required to provide for transportation to such nonpublic school provided
that  such  five  or  ten  additional days, whichever is applicable, are
limited to the following: the Tuesday, Wednesday,  Thursday  and  Friday

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10182-01-5

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