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Senate Bill S7726

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes interschool robotics competitions for certain schools

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2025-S7726 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L

2025-S7726 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of education to promulgate and review as necessary rules and regulations requiring trustees and boards of education of schools with a robotics program to conduct interschool robotics competitions for grades nine through twelve equivalent to the interschool athletic competitions conducted by such schools.

2025-S7726 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7726 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7726
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- 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  establishing  inter-
   school robotics competitions for certain schools
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 63 to read as follows:
   63. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE AND REVIEW  AS  NECESSARY  RULES
 AND  REGULATIONS  REQUIRING  TRUSTEES AND BOARDS OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOLS
 WITH A ROBOTICS PROGRAM TO CONDUCT INTERSCHOOL ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS FOR
 GRADES NINE THROUGH TWELVE EQUIVALENT TO THE INTERSCHOOL ATHLETIC COMPE-
 TITIONS CONDUCTED BY SUCH SCHOOLS.
   § 2. 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.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11696-01-5

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