New York A 7042: Increases the required number of instructional days in a school year to two hundred

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A07042 Summary:

BILL NOA07042 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown K

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§551, 1704, 3204, 3602-e, 3604 & 3635, Ed L; amd §§446, 513 & 609, R & SS L

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Increases the required number of instructional days in a school year to two hundred.

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03/20/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7042

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the retirement and social security
 law, in relation to increasing the required number of instructional
 days in a school year to two hundred

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

 1 Section 1. Section 551 of the education law, as added by chapter 414
 2 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 551. Apportionment. 1. In order to meet proper health, welfare and
 4 safety standards in qualifying schools for the benefit of the pupils
 5 enrolled therein, there shall be apportioned health, welfare and safety
 6 grants by the commissioner to each qualifying school for the school
 7 years beginning on and after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one,
 8 an amount equal to the product of thirty dollars multiplied by the aver-
 9 age daily attendance of pupils receiving instruction in such school, to
 10 be applied for costs of maintenance and repair. Such apportionment shall
 11 be increased by ten dollars multiplied by the average daily attendance
 12 of pupils receiving instruction in a school building constructed prior
 13 to nineteen hundred forty-seven. In no event shall the per pupil annual
 14 allowance computed under this section exceed fifty per centum of the
 15 average per pupil cost of equivalent maintenance and repair in the
 16 public schools of the state on a state-wide basis, as determined by the
 17 commissioner, and in no event shall the apportionment to a qualifying
 18 school exceed the amount of expenditures for maintenance and repair of
 19 such school as reported pursuant to section five hundred fifty-two of
 20 this article.
 21 2. The apportionment pursuant to this section shall be reduced by one
 22 [one hundred eightieth] two hundredth for each day less than [one
 23 hundred eighty] two hundred days that such school was actually in total
 24 session in the base year, except that the commissioner may disregard

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09585-01-5

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 1 such reduction up to five days if [he] such commissioner finds that the
 2 school was not in session for [one hundred eighty] two hundred days
 3 because of extraordinary adverse weather conditions, impairment of heat-
 4 ing facilities, insufficiency of water supply, shortage of fuel or the
 5 destruction of a school building, and if the commissioner further finds
 6 that such school cannot make up such days of instruction during the
 7 school year. No such reduction shall be made, however, for any day on
 8 which such school was in session for the purpose of administering the
 9 regents examinations or the regents scholarship examinations, or any
 10 day, not to exceed three days, when such school was not in session
 11 because of a conference of teachers called by the principal of the
 12 school.
 13 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1704 of the education law, as amended by
 14 chapter 543 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
 15 2. Except as otherwise provided by law, no board of education or
 16 community board in the city school district of the city of New York
 17 shall provide for a school year consisting of fewer than [one hundred
 18 eighty] two hundred days of school.
 19 § 3. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 3204 of the education
 20 law, as amended by section 7 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of
 21 2022, is am