Assembly Bill A2146

2019-2020 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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2019-A2146 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S472
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10093, S7296
2013-2014: A10034, S944
2015-2016: A5911, S1428
2017-2018: A6129, S161
2021-2022: A5944, S2551
2023-2024: S3471

2019-A2146 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-A2146 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2146
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee 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].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05457-01-9

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