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Assembly Bill A5944

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher

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2021-A5944 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2551
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10093, S7296
2013-2014: A10034, S944
2015-2016: A5911, S1428
2017-2018: A6129, S161
2019-2020: A2146, S472
2023-2024: S3471
2025-2026: S3595

2021-A5944 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher.

2021-A5944 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5944
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 2, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PICHARDO, SAYEGH, TAYLOR, ASHBY, GRIFFIN, HYND-
   MAN, REYES -- 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].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07231-01-1

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