Assembly Bill A10034

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A10034 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S944
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10093, S7296
2015-2016: A5911, S1428
2017-2018: A6129, S161
2019-2020: A2146, S472
2021-2022: A5944, S2551
2023-2024: S3471

2013-A10034 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher.

2013-A10034 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10034

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 10, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pichardo) --
  read once and referred 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].
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01327-01-3

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