New York S 831: Relates to requiring guidance counselors in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school

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S00831 Summary:

BILL NOS00831 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02616

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SPONSORTEDISCO

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COSPNSRFAHY

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Directs the board of education or the board of trustees of each school district shall establish a policy and adopt procedures permitting the district to confer a diploma on a student posthumously if, at the time of death, such student had completed the eleventh grade class of a public school in the district and was enrolled or expected to be enrolled in the twelfth grade class within the same public school district the following school year.

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BILL NOS00831 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 831

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to posthumous awarding of
 high school diplomas

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

 1 Section 1. Section 3204 of the education law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
 3 6. Posthumous awarding of diplomas. The board of education or the
 4 board of trustees of each school district shall establish a policy and
 5 adopt procedures permitting the district to confer a diploma on a
 6 student posthumously if, at the time of death, such student had
 7 completed the eleventh grade class of a public school in the district
 8 and was enrolled or expected to be enrolled in the twelfth grade class
 9 within the same public school district the following school year. The
 10 policy and procedures shall address the district's coordination with the
 11 parents or guardians of the deceased student concerning the method for
 12 conferring such a diploma, including but not limited to, site of presen-
 13 tation, identity of a proxy recipient, family attendance at the high
 14 school graduation ceremony, and scope of recognition and/or partic-
 15 ipation, if any, at the high school graduation ceremony, and shall
 16 further provide for annual written notice to all students and their
 17 parents or guardians about the school district's policy and procedures
 18 adopted in accordance with this subdivision. Nothing in this subdivision
 19 shall require a school district to issue a diploma before the graduation
 20 date of the deceased student's high school graduating class or require
 21 the family of a deceased student to attend or participate in a high
 22 school graduation ceremony or related activities. Diplomas conferred in
 23 accordance with this subdivision shall not be applied toward student

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02775-01-5

 S. 831 2

 1 graduation counts or for any other purpose of federal or state account-
 2 ability data collection.
 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 4 have become a law.

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