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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 27, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education  in  accord-
   ance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee

 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to declaring Pulaski Day
   a school holiday
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  8  of  section 3604 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 359 of the laws  of  2023,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   8.  No  school shall be in session on a Saturday, the first day of the
 second lunar month after the winter solstice in the  preceding  calendar
 year  known as Asian Lunar New Year, THE LAST FRIDAY IN OCTOBER KNOWN AS
 PULASKI  DAY,  or  a  legal  holiday,  except  general   election   day,
 Washington's  birthday  and  Lincoln's  birthday, and except that driver
 education classes may be conducted  on  a  Saturday.  A  deficiency  not
 exceeding  four  days during any school year caused by teachers' attend-
 ance upon conferences held by superintendents of schools of city  school
 districts or other school districts employing superintendents of schools
 shall  be  excused by the commissioner, notwithstanding any provision of
 law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a school district may elect  to
 schedule  such  conference days in the last two weeks of August, subject
 to collective bargaining requirements pursuant to  article  fourteen  of
 the  civil  service  law,  and  such  days  shall be counted towards the
 required one hundred eighty days of session, provided however, that such
 scheduling shall not alter the obligation  of  the  school  district  to
 provide  transportation to students in non-public elementary and second-
 ary schools or charter schools. At least two such conference days during
 such school year shall be dedicated to staff attendance upon conferences
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13686-02-3
              

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 providing staff development relating to implementation of the  new  high
 learning  standards and assessments, as adopted by the board of regents.
 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or  regulation  to  the
 contrary,  school  districts may elect to use one or more of such allow-
 able conference days in units of not less than one hour each to  provide
 staff  development activities relating to implementation of the new high
 learning standards and assessments. A district making such election  may
 provide  such  staff  development  on  any day during which sessions are
 allowed and apply such units to satisfy a deficiency in  the  length  of
 one  or  more  daily  sessions of instruction for pupils as specified in
 regulations of the commissioner. The commissioner shall assure that such
 conference days  include  appropriate  school  violence  prevention  and
 intervention  training,  and  may require that up to one such conference
 day be dedicated for such purpose.
   § 2. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education  law,  as  sepa-
 rately  amended  by chapters 359 and 629 of the laws of 2023, is amended
 to read as follows:
   2-a. The superintendent of each city school district, in a city having
 a population in excess of one million, shall  prepare  a  public  school
 calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which trans-
 portation  has  been  requested  not later than the first day of June in
 each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session in
 the following school year. Such school district which provides transpor-
 tation to nonpublic schools shall provide such  transportation  for  the
 same number of days as the public schools are open but shall not provide
 transportation  services  for  more than one hundred eighty days.  Offi-
 cials of each nonpublic school to which transportation is provided by  a
 city  school  district  of  a  city having a population in excess of one
 million may notify such district, not later than the first day  of  July
 of  each school year, of a maximum of five days, exclusive of Saturdays,
 Sundays or legal holidays upon which public schools are required  to  be
 closed,  on  which the public schools are scheduled to be closed, except
 that in any year in which the first or last day of Passover  and  Easter
 Sunday  are separated by more than seven days, such officials may notify
 the district of a maximum of ten days, but such school district will  be
 required to provide for transportation to such nonpublic school provided
 that  such  five  or  ten  additional days, whichever is applicable, are
 limited to the following: the Tuesday, Wednesday,  Thursday  and  Friday
 after  Labor  Day,  Rosh  Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the week in which public
 schools are closed for spring recess,  December  twenty-fourth  and  the
 week  between  Christmas day and New Year's day, the Tuesday, Wednesday,
 Thursday and Friday after the observance of Washington's  birthday,  the
 first  day  of  the  second lunar month after the winter solstice in the
 preceding calendar year, known as Asian Lunar New  Year,  the  fifteenth
 day  of  the  eighth month of the Indian calendar in each year, known as
 Diwali, THE LAST FRIDAY IN OCTOBER KNOWN AS PULASKI  DAY,  and,  in  the
 boroughs  of  Brooklyn and Queens only, Anniversary Day as designated in
 section twenty-five hundred eighty-six of this chapter.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.