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Senate Bill S10372

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires community service for graduation from high school

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2025-S10372 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §819, Ed L

2025-S10372 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a total of thirty-six hours, or eight hours per year, for a high school student to graduate.

2025-S10372 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10372
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RHOADS -- 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  community
   service by certain students
 
   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 819 to
 read as follows:
   § 819. COMMUNITY SERVICE.  THE COMMISSIONER, IN COOPERATION  WITH  THE
 BOARD  OF REGENTS, IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO ESTABLISH AND DEVELOP A
 REQUIREMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR ALL SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.  ALL
 SECONDARY  SCHOOL  STUDENTS  SHALL COMPLETE A MINIMUM OF EIGHT COMMUNITY
 SERVICE HOURS PER ACADEMIC YEAR IN GRADES NINE THROUGH TWELVE.   THIRTY-
 SIX HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE IS NECESSARY FOR A STUDENT TO GRADUATE.
   §  2.  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.
                                                            LBD13495-01-5

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