New York Assembly Bill A07398 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7398 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, BURDICK, CUNNINGHAM, JENSEN, GIBBS, GALLAGHER, REYES, LEVENBERG, TAYLOR, KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring public elementary schools to start no earlier than eight a.m. and public secondary schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 63 to read as follows: 3 63. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring 4 all public elementary schools within the state to start no earlier than 5 eight a.m. and all public secondary schools within the state to start no 6 earlier than eight thirty a.m. 7 § 2. Section 3604 of the education law is amended by adding a new 8 subdivision 8-a to read as follows: 9 8-a. a. No public elementary school within the state shall be enti- 10 tled to any portion of such school moneys on such apportionment unless 11 the report of the trustees or board of education for the preceding 12 school year shall show that such public elementary school started no 13 earlier than eight a.m. 14 b. No public high school within the state shall be entitled to any 15 portion of such school moneys on such apportionment unless the report of 16 the trustees or board of education for the preceding school year shall 17 show that such public secondary schools started no earlier than eight 18 thirty a.m. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 20 academic years beginning on and after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06985-03-5