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Assembly Bill A2456

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts students participating in interscholastic sports from physical education classes

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2017-A2456 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8636
2015-2016: A1084

2017-A2456 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts students participating in interscholastic sports from physical education classes.

2017-A2456 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2456
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to exemption  from  phys-
   ical  education  classes for students participating in interscholastic
   sports
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  803 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 118 of the laws  of  1957,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  All  pupils  above  the  age  of eight years in all elementary and
 secondary schools, shall receive as part of the  prescribed  courses  of
 instruction  therein  such physical education under the direction of the
 commissioner of education as the regents  may  determine.  Such  courses
 shall  be designed to aid in the well-rounded education of pupils and in
 the development of character, citizenship, physical fitness, health  and
 the  worthy  use  of leisure. Pupils above such age attending the public
 schools shall be required to attend  upon  such  prescribed  courses  of
 instruction.    PUPILS  PARTICIPATING IN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS SHALL BE
 EXEMPT, ONLY FOR THE DURATION OF THE INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT SEASON,  FROM
 THE PRESCRIBED COURSES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07652-01-7

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