New York Senate Bill S00255 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 255 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing Three King's day as a school holiday The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3204-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3204-a. Three King's day school holiday. 1. The sixth day of Janu- 4 ary, commonly known as Three King's day, is hereby made and declared to 5 be a holiday for all public schools in a qualified school district. 6 2. A qualified school district, for purposes of this section, shall 7 mean a city school district of a city having a population of one million 8 or more inhabitants. 9 3. The school authorities of a qualified school district are hereby 10 authorized and directed to cause all public schools within such district 11 to be closed on Three King's day. 12 § 2. Section 3604 of the education law is amended by adding a new 13 subdivision 7-a to read as follows: 14 7-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of any 15 calculation under subdivision seven or eight of this section, the 16 commissioner shall disregard any reduction resulting from observance of 17 Three King's day and, if necessary, such observed holiday shall be 18 calculated as a session day. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 20 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amend- 21 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 22 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 23 completed on or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01476-01-3