New York S 3595: Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher

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S03595 Summary:

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Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher.

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01/28/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3595

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 28, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 requiring all school
 districts to have a certified physical education teacher

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 803 of the education law, as
 2 amended by chapter 118 of the laws of 1957, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 2. The board of education or trustees of every school district regu-
 5 larly employing twenty or more teachers shall employ, within every
 6 school, a teacher or teachers qualified and duly licensed under the
 7 regulations of the regents to give [such] physical education instruc-
 8 tion[; in every other district of the state, they shall require such
 9 instruction to be given by the teacher or teachers regularly employed to
 10 give instruction in other subjects or by a teacher or teachers qualified
 11 and duly licensed under the regulations of the regents].
 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07064-01-5

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