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Assembly Bill A5017

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to designating the first Friday in February as the New York statewide school day to help people in need

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2023-A5017 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3204-a, amd §3604, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A3407

2023-A5017 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to designating the first Friday in February as the "New York statewide school day to help people in need".

2023-A5017 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5017
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to designating the first
   Friday in February as the "New  York  statewide  school  day  to  help
   people in need"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3204-a
 to read as follows:
   § 3204-A. NEW YORK STATEWIDE SCHOOL DAY TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED;  HOLI-
 DAY.    THE FIRST FRIDAY IN FEBRUARY SHALL BE DECLARED A HOLIDAY FOR ALL
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE "NEW YORK STATEWIDE SCHOOL  DAY
 TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED".
   §  2.  Section  3604  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
   7-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, FOR PURPOSES  OF  ANY
 CALCULATION  UNDER  SUBDIVISION  SEVEN  OR  EIGHT  OF  THIS SECTION, THE
 COMMISSIONER SHALL DISREGARD ANY REDUCTION RESULTING FROM THE OBSERVANCE
 OF THE NEW YORK STATEWIDE SCHOOL DAY TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED HOLIDAY AND,
 IF NECESSARY, SUCH OBSERVED HOLIDAY SHALL BE  CALCULATED  AS  A  SESSION
 DAY.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00183-01-3

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