| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 05, 2022 |
referred to education |
| Jan 21, 2021 |
referred to education |
Senate Bill S2551
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 33rd Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
Actions
2021-S2551 (ACTIVE) - Details
2021-S2551 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2551
SPONSOR: RIVERA
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all school
districts to have a certified physical education teacher
PURPOSE:
To require that all school districts regularly employing twenty or more
teachers shall employ, within every school, a certified physical educa-
tion teacher.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Subdivision 2 of section 803 of the education law is amended:
- adds "within every school" so that every school in all school
districts within the board of education's jurisdiction shall employ
qualified and duly licensed teachers under the regulations of the board
2021-S2551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
2551
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 21, 2021
___________
Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 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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