New York A 3902: Declares Pulaski Day a school holiday

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A03902 Summary:

BILL NOA03902 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBurke

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§3604 & 3635, Ed L

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Declares the last Friday in October, known as Pulaski Day, a school holiday.

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01/30/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3902

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to declaring Pulaski Day
 a school holiday

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 3604 of the education law, as
 2 amended by chapter 359 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 8. No school shall be in session on a Saturday, the first day of the
 5 second lunar month after the winter solstice in the preceding calendar
 6 year known as Asian Lunar New Year, the last Friday in October known as
 7 Pulaski Day, or a legal holiday, except general election day,
 8 Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday, and except that driver
 9 education classes may be conducted on a Saturday. A deficiency not
 10 exceeding four days during any school year caused by teachers' attend-
 11 ance upon conferences held by superintendents of schools of city school
 12 districts or other school districts employing superintendents of schools
 13 shall be excused by the commissioner, notwithstanding any provision of
 14 law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a school district may elect to
 15 schedule such conference days in the last two weeks of August, subject
 16 to collective bargaining requirements pursuant to article fourteen of
 17 the civil service law, and such days shall be counted towards the
 18 required one hundred eighty days of session, provided however, that such
 19 scheduling shall not alter the obligation of the school district to
 20 provide transportation to students in non-public elementary and second-
 21 ary schools or charter schools. At least two such conference days during
 22 such school year shall be dedicated to staff attendance upon conferences
 23 providing staff development relating to implementation of the new high
 24 learning standards and assessments, as adopted by the board of regents.
 25 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08075-01-5

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 1 contrary, school districts may elect to use one or more of such allow-
 2 able conference days in units of not less than one hour each to provide
 3 staff development activities relating to implementation of the new high
 4 learning standards and assessments. A district making such election may
 5 provide such staff development on any day during which sessions are
 6 allowed and apply such units to satisfy a deficiency in the length of
 7 one or more daily sessions of instruction for pupils as specified in
 8 regulations of the commissioner. The commissioner shall assure that such
 9 conference days include appropriate school violence prevention and
 10 intervention training, and may require that up to one such conference
 11 day be dedicated for such purpose.
 12 § 2. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as sepa-
 13 rately amended by chapters 359 and 629 of the laws of 2023, is amended
 14 to read as follows:
 15 2-a. The superintendent of each city school district, in a city having
 16 a population in excess of one million, shall prepare a public school
 17 calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which trans-
 18 portation has been requested not later than the first day of June in
 19 each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session in
 20 the following school year. Such school district which provides transpor-
 21 tation to nonpublic schools shall provide such transportat