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Senate Bill S8168

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to suspending state assessments during a state disaster emergency

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2019-S8168 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10199
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S1982, A3163
2023-2024: S1984

2019-S8168 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to suspending state assessments during a state disaster emergency; requires the commissioner of education to suspend state assessments during a state disaster emergency and for thirty days after such emergency has ended.

2019-S8168 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8168 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8168
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 13, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  suspending  state
   assessments during a state disaster emergency
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amending  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 59 to read as follows:
   59.  WHENEVER A STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY IS DECLARED PURSUANT TO ARTI-
 CLE TWO-B OF THE  EXECUTIVE  LAW,  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  IMMEDIATELY
 SUSPEND  ALL  STATE  ASSESSMENTS. SUCH SUSPENSION SHALL REMAIN IN EFFECT
 FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY DAYS AFTER  SUCH  STATE  DISASTER  EMERGENCY  HAS
 ENDED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15893-01-0

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