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New York Assembly Education Committee
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Chair
Michael Benedetto (D)
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn (D)
Harry Bronson (D)
Ari Brown (R)
Marianne Buttenschon (D)
Lester Chang (R)
Sarah Clark (D)
Bill Conrad (D)
Manny De Los Santos (D)
Eddie Gibbs (D)
Alicia Hyndman (D)
Chantel Jackson (D)
Ron Kim (D)
Bill Magnarelli (D)
Brian Maher (R)
Dave McDonough (R)
John Mikulin (R)
Marcela Mitaynes (D)
Steve Otis (D)
Amy Paulin (D)
Stacey Pheffer Amato (D)
Sam Pirozzolo (R)
Phil Ramos (D)
Mike Reilly (R)
Nader Sayegh (D)
Joseph Sempolinski (R)
Amanda Septimo (D)
Doug Smith (R)
Al Taylor (D)
Emerita Torres (D)
John Zaccaro (D)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A00037 | Establishes the "New York individuals with dyslexia education act"; implements a plan to identify and support students with characteristics of dyslexia; requires annual screening in grades K-5; directs intervention and notification; directs education department to develop a handbook providing guidance to parents and teachers. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00043 | Authorizes a school district in the village of Tuckahoe, by resolution, to limit transportation of students to 7 miles. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00078 | Requires school districts to provide instructional programming and services in reading and literacy which are evidence based and aligned with state standards; requires teachers in grades pre-K through five to attend professional development courses in reading education. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00083 | Establishes St. Patrick's day, March 17th, as a school holiday for all city school districts of cities of one million inhabitants or more. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00085 | Relates to metered in funding for rental assistance for all New York city charter students. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00096 | Requires instruction in financial management for all students in grades four through eight. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00099 | Requires instruction in senior high schools regarding calling 911 when witnessing or experiencing a drug or alcohol overdose; provides that pupils shall receive instruction regarding the lawfulness of calling 911 when witnessing or experiencing a drug or alcohol overdose; encourages pupils to call 911 when witnessing or experiencing a drug or alcohol overdose without fear of arrest. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00109 | Establishes that instruction in financial education be provided to pupils in grades nine through twelve; establishes what should be included in such curriculum including the basics of financial planning, budgeting, borrowing, interest rates, personal insurance policies, etc. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00118 | Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00119 | Requires teachers and library media specialists to complete professional development related to media literacy education; directs the department of education to develop model media literacy education and CTLE requirements related to media literacy education. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00120 | Directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory group to study the teaching of media literacy; requires such group to survey all school districts on the media literacy practices of and the current media literacy resources available to each district, to inquire how districts are currently integrating digital citizenship and media literacy education in their curriculum. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00129 | Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior diploma. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00140 | Relates to prohibiting school districts, school principals, administrators, or teachers from requiring, permitting, or conducting a lesson or experimental study using an animal in a hatching project. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00146 | Prohibits the appointment of certain state, municipal or agency employees as impartial hearing officers to hear appeals of determinations regarding children with handicapping conditions. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00150 | Directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory committee to study the teaching of media literacy; requires such committee to annually review policy on media literacy. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00194 | Enacts the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"; requires community school boards in the city of New York to authorize, where reasonable, the use of school grounds in the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival). | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00214 | Requires vision screening in public schools using examination devices and testing methods as may be authorized in the regulations of the commissioner of education, including but not limited to, the Snellen Eye Test Chart and automated vision screening devices. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00233 | Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00246 | Establishes an advanced coursework and examination access program to reimburse exam fees associated with the administration of an advanced coursework exam; defines terms; requires authorized schools to inform students and parents of all advanced coursework programs offered, their cost-free status, and the potential benefits of their successful completion as it relates to college credit and other academic opportunities; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00250 | Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of edu | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00282 | Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00311 | Relates to the establishment of various programs for students in pre-kindergarten through third grade including programs for literacy, career readiness and financial literacy. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00316 | Requires the commissioner of education to make a report on the extent of all existing resources and best practices available for swimming instruction classes in public schools and establish a working group on swimming education. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00323 | Relates to the compulsory age for full time instruction from six to five years of age and certain exceptions for minor children. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00326 | Establishes a task force to study the frequency and seriousness of violence that occurs on school grounds and the causes of such violence; and make recommendations on school safety in the state of New York. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00334 | Establishes the bilingual teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain bilingual, certified teachers in schools with a bilingual teacher shortage; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00335 | Includes policies and procedures for responding to students having mental health crises in a manner that does not include contacting law enforcement unless implied or direct threats of violence or other criminal activity is involved in school safety plans. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00353 | Relates to amending the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program subscription amount for regions other than New York city. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00389 | Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00410 | Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00411 | Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00450 | Eliminates the requirement that when the board of education enters into a piggyback contract with another school district that transports students pursuant to a contract with a private transportation contractor, the board finds that the entry into the piggyback contract will result in a cost savings to the school district. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00454 | Permits the Niskayuna central school district to create an insurance reserve fund. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00460 | Relates to residency requirements for students in districts in which charter schools are located; provides that students shall attend charter schools solely if they live in the district in which the charter school is located. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00466 | Increases the per student rate of empire state after school program and advantage after school program grants; requires future per student rates to be modified accounting for any minimum wage adjustments. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00469 | Adds a school business official to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) Board. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00475 | Relates to reimbursement for studies for districts subject to reorganization when appropriated. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00538 | Relates to the creation of a school-based teen dating violence prevention program designed to be incorporated into a school district's existing health curriculum to prevent and reduce the incidence and prevalence of teen dating violence. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00548 | Provides for accountability in state assessments by creating a regents review board to audit assessments used to determine grade promotion, graduation and adequate yearly progress by requiring a written report, implementation of an auditing and review of pilot and/or field testing of the standardized tests used to ensure validity, reliability, alignment to standards and appropriateness of use. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00568 | Relates to school boards approving a budget that exceeds the tax levy limit by a sixty percent vote; requires subsequently it must be approved by a majority of the qualified voters. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00570 | Relates to providing transportation for children with a disability; removes the requirement that a child attends the school the district is providing transportation to for the purpose of receiving services or programs similar to special educational programs recommended for such child by the local committee on special education. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00591 | Requires kindergarten instruction for Rockland and Westchester counties for minors who are five years of age on or before December first. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00604 | Relates to instruction in food, agriculture and nutrition in elementary and high school; contents may be varied to meet the needs of particular school districts; need not be uniform throughout the state; school districts shall utilize either the curriculum for health education instruction regarding food, agriculture and nutrition prescribed by the commissioner or a course approved by the commissioner in accordance with criteria established by the commissioner. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00610 | Requires the department of education to develop school health and mental health professionals to student ratios in public schools for students who do not receive services pursuant to the individuals with disabilities education act. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00625 | Provides that in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more, the parent or person in parental relation to a child shall be entitled to the presumption that the school identified in a settlement agreement is the student's operative placement for the purposes of pendency until there is an intervening, pendency-changing event. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00638 | Requires the state to reimburse non-public and private schools for the cost of testing where COVID-19 testing is being mandated by the state. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00656 | Provides that schools need not provide special instruction to delinquent students whose violent behavior poses an unreasonable risk to teachers and students in special day schools or special school rooms; permits shared services in connection with the establishment of such special schools. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00662 | Requires the location of a proposed charter school be included in the charter application. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00702 | Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00703 | Relates to the provision of grants to eligible school districts to cover the costs of school resource officers employed at schools in such districts; authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities to provide school resource officers. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00706 | Requires at least one full-time guidance counselor to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior and senior high school throughout the state; sets duties of guidance counselors. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00736 | Requires courses of study in private schools in the prevention of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse for pupils in grades K-8. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00752 | Requires policies regarding maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities to include a plan to remove students and staff from occupied spaces where practicable when educational and support services spaces reach eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/08/2025 |
| A00756 | Defines the term "construction projects" to mean the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of any school building where a district receives any apportionment for debt service or building aid and the school building is sited within the Long Island region; provides that each contract involving the award of a construction project shall require the use of a project labor agreement for all contractors and subcontractors on such project. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00770 | Requires school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting the use of cellular telephones during classroom instruction; requires the department of education to adopt a model policy for use by school districts. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00785 | Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00798 | Expands the requirements for teaching humane education of animals to secondary school students; requires verification of compliance. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00809 | Requires the commissioner of education to develop and adopt instruction in financial and insurance literacy for students in grades nine through twelve. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00827 | Establishes the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Indian calendar in each year, known as Diwali, as a school holiday. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00828 | Establishes the fifteenth day of the month of Kartika on the Hindu calendar in each year, known as Diwali, as a statewide school holiday. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00839 | Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast, snack and lunch service programs. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00865 | Requires the appointment of an independent fiduciary upon the closing of a charter school to develop and implement the dissolution plan of such charter school, including the distribution of assets. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00902 | Authorizes the provision of site mapping for emergency response data with school safety plans; provides for the funding of such mapping data. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00939 | Requires the administration and the instruction in preparation of the TASC examination in the Chinese and Korean languages for pupils who are proficient in these languages and of limited English proficiency. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00945 | Enacts Jacobe's Law requiring school administrators to contact the parents or guardians of students when bullying or harassment has occurred. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00996 | Prohibits trustees and members of a board of education from voting on matters before the board which affect a family member of the trustee or board member who is either employed by the board of education or school district or who would be financially impacted by such vote. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01041 | Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred as a result of an influx of migrant students entering the schools of the districts; directs the governor to submit chapter amendments to the Aid to Localities budget. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01049 | Requires school districts to have diversity, equity and inclusion officers to develop methods to diversify the personnel of the school district and to recommend changes to district policies and practices to reduce racial disparities in hiring school district employees, particularly teachers; requires boards of education to annually report information regarding such policies and practices to the department of education; requires the department of education to annually report such information to t | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01052 | Authorizes the Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public schools; authorizes such school district in which a video lottery gaming facility is located to receive payments to increase support for public schools. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01054 | Prohibits trustees and members of a board of education from having a family member who works for the same board of education or school district as the trustee or member. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01057 | Authorizes schools to possess and administer FDA approved opioid reversal agents in emergency situations to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacological effects of an opioid in the human body. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01061 | Establishes community literacy programs and the community literacy fund to provide grants to non-profit organizations that assist adults in reading, writing, math, English language proficiency, and problem-solving skills. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01078 | Enacts the "Drink Up Act"; requires every public school to offer water in a sealed bottled container as an additional drink option to any student during lunch at no cost to such student. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01080 | Allows schools to provide water safety instruction to students in grades kindergarten through twelve; allows for the commissioner of education to provide technical assistance to develop curricula for water safety instruction. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01087 | Enacts the "making equitable and alternative lunches (MEAL) act"; requires a public school to offer a plant-based food option, a halal food option and a kosher food option as an alternative to every meal or snack offered in food service to any student who chooses such alternative meal or snack as an option. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01088 | Authorizes aid for career education to begin in grade nine instead of grade ten; changes the amount per pupil. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01106 | Requires instruction in civic education for grades 5 through 12 including instruction on the NYS constitution; federal, state and local government; civic literacy; methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01124 | Requires any school district in the state shall provide, to pupils in grades nine through twelve, one full unit of instruction designed to promote consumer awareness and financial education. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01131 | Provides that students who have an IEP shall not be required to take more than one regents examination on any given day. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01144 | Requires kindergartens to operate full day programs in the 2027-2028 school year. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01186 | Requires school districts to conduct mandatory early screening for dyslexia for all children commencing in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten and continuing thereafter on an annual basis until each child successfully completes second grade; requires school districts to designate an individual to maintain complete and accurate records containing early screening reports for each child, and to provide resources and materials to the parent and/or guardian of any child who displays indications of dysle | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01197 | Establishes the differentiated learning environment task force, to conduct a comprehensive study on the way colleges and universities are preparing future teachers to work in urban settings and to offer differentiated classrooms. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01208 | Provides for a gun violence prevention program in the public schools; provides that the program is to be developed by the department of education in conjunction with other state agencies and educational organizations and is to be made available to schools for use in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade; provides for a report to the governor and the legislature on the program; enacts the "gun violence prevention act". | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01230 | Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01274 | Establishes the "Purple Star School Program" to assist military-connected students and to recognize the value of military service and civic responsibility. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01337 | Establishes a half-credit course in financial education delivered by means of a comprehensive financial literacy program for all pupils in grades nine, ten, eleven or twelve. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01403 | Allows public campaign funds to be used for disability access services including but not limited to captioning, sign language interpretation, assistive listening device, Braille, large print, communication access real-time translation and accessible transportation services and to be used for language interpretation and translation services. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01435 | Requires all text-books approved by this article to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01448 | Relates to school districts evaluating capital improvement projects for such school district in the state for: compliance with the New York state climate leadership and community protection act, upgrading heating, ventilation or air conditioning to be more energy efficient, including, but not limited to upgrading to an active solar heating system; installing solar panels or other sources of alternative energy; improving broadband accessibility and reliability; upgrading technology so that it is | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| A01487 | Requires vision screening examinations for students using examination devices and testing methods, including, but not limited to, the Snellen Eye Test Chart and automated vision screening devices. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01538 | Requires a school library media specialist in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school with one such specialist being employed full-time in schools with more than five hundred students and two such specialists being employed full-time in schools with more than two thousand students. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01542 | Allows voters to take photographs of themselves and their ballot, or absentee ballot, while in a privacy booth, and to share and disseminate such photographs on social media. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01543 | Requires absentee ballots to be provided to all qualified voters; relates to the delivery of absentee ballots. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01544 | Decreases the frequency of lock-down drills in schools; directs that such drills shall be implemented with a trauma-informed approach; permits parents to opt their children out of such drills. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01564 | Requires comprehensive training at least one time per year for school bus drivers and school bus attendants in the discouragement, prevention and detection of harassment, bullying and discrimination. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01588 | Prohibits the city school district from reimbursing charter schools for leasing a privately owned or other publicly owned facility; prohibits charter school employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01624 | Creates a set of media literacy standards for students in grades kindergarten through twelve which focuses on internet safety, civility and digital citizenship. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01645 | Requires higher education research facilities to make available certain information regarding the adoption of dogs or cats on their website. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01660 | Requires the development of course materials for mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01665 | Requires certain school staff members to be trained in the Heimlich maneuver and requires at least one such trained person to be present when and where students eat meals. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01666 | Establishes a climate change education grant program to award grants to eligible applicants to support climate change education grant programs for young people or to provide optional teacher training or professional development programs relevant to the advance of climate change literacy in young people; establishes the New York state climate change education fund. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01671 | Requires instruction in anti-gun violence in all schools. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| A01706 | Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study regarding ecological literacy and healthy living curriculum in schools, and to provide recommendations in a report. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01726 | Requires that the NYS board of regents hold at least two meetings a year in New York city; requires announcements of the time, date, location and agenda thereof. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01731 | Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million that have students practicing a religious faith with specific dietary restrictions to offer food options which meet such dietary restrictions upon the students' request. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01735 | Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for transportation of students on field trips. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01771 | Provides that no school district shall be eligible to receive the full apportionment of state aid to which it is entitled if evidence is found by the state comptroller when an audit is conducted and such audit finds that a district has inappropriate excess of their unexpended surplus funds and such school district did not reduce the school tax levy in a proportion equal to the excess of four percent of the current year school budget. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01775 | Requires the electronic and print publication of certain school district reports within 7 days after approval; defines "local officer or employee" to include certain school officials. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01822 | Establishes active shooter drills in public and private educational institutions. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01834 | Requires public schools to offer plant-based food options in food service. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01842 | Relates to mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues and trauma informed care. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01855 | Relates to requiring the department of education to provide school districts with a list of resources and instructional materials on media literacy; defines terms. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01857 | Requires the public school curriculum for children in kindergarten through grade twelve to include a minimum of two hours per week instruction in civics lessons. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01881 | Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes in all school districts with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade and intermediate sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade for students who shall gain entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examination; authorizes automatic admission to a gifted and talented program in intermediate sixth through eighth grade for those students in element | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01929 | Relates to student class size in public schools in school districts located outside of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants; requires such districts to develop a plan to reduce actual class sizes beginning September two thousand twenty-five. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01984 | Requires that climate change and sustainability education be taught in elementary and high schools to educate pupils about how human activities cause climate change, the effects of climate change, the dangers associated with climate change and preventative measures that can be taken to alleviate the impacts of climate change. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01992 | Limits compensation of executives of charter schools to $199,000 where such compensation is provided through state funding. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A01996 | Provides for apportionment for charter school tuition payments for any school district that is required to pay tuition to charter schools in the two thousand twenty-five-two thousand twenty-six school year and thereafter. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02005 | Authorizes school districts to submit an opt-out waiver to the commissioner of education authorizing such districts to opt-out of certain zero-emission school bus requirements. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02009 | Establishes interregional enrollment of students taking classes in multiple school districts (Part A); allows students who are enrolled in and taking classes in multiple school districts to receive cooperative and individualized educational services (Part B). | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02011 | Permits local boards of education to enter into contracts with a drive-sharing network of persons for reimbursement of transportation expenses for the conveyance of pupils residing in such school districts; authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations; outlines certain requirements to which the local board of education shall adhere; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02041 | Relates to school session days; adds general election day to the list of days when school will not be in session; allows a school district to elect to require staff attendance on a general election day or to schedule a professional development day. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| A02072 | Establishes the make our schools safer commission to produce protocols on how to make schools in New York safer from school shootings and bombers; requires the commission to deliver a report of its findings to the legislature and the governor; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02118 | Enacts the "learning for work act"; establishes the youth apprenticeship program and the enhanced regents professional diploma; appropriates moneys therefor. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02150 | Provides that any special act school districts established pursuant to Chapter 566 of the Laws of 1967 shall be held harmless from any reduction in tuition revenue or any tuition rate calculation and/or rate reconciliation arising out of intake closure or limits on the entry of new student placements. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02184 | Relates to establishing the commission on African American history and achievement to develop and recommend school curriculum that incorporates the contributions and achievements made by African Americans. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02192 | Establishes a grant program for public K-12 schools which are eligible for support provided under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, for the purposes of installing laundry equipment for facilities for use by students and parents or guardians of students. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02240 | Provides for absence from school for the mental or behavioral health of the minor. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| A02256 | Extends the right to vote in school district elections to qualified persons who are sixteen years of age. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02279 | Enacts the "educational equity and choice act"; requires nonpublic schools to provide the same services that public schools currently provide to nonpublic schools; provides that such costs shall be approved by the commissioner of education and borne by the state; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02307 | Relates to creating a school resource officer program to permit the employment of retired law enforcement officers and provide grants to school districts and non-public schools for such purpose. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02318 | Raises the exclusion of certain indebtedness of school districts other than school districts in a city with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02326 | Deems home instruction which is compliant with the provisions of article 65 of the education law and the home instruction requirements prescribed in the commissioner of education's regulations to be substantially equivalent in amount and quality to the instruction given to students of like age and attainments at the public schools of the city or district where the student resides. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02347 | Relates to the removal of an election commissioner by the governor or by affirmative vote of a majority of commissioners of the state board of elections for incompetence, misconduct, or other good cause, provided that prior to removal, such election commissioner shall be given a written copy of the charges against them and have an opportunity to be heard in their defense. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02385 | Relates to the provision of certain services to students in nonpublic schools in certain school districts. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02406 | Directs the office of mental health to develop materials relating to suicide prevention and identifying signs of depression for school-aged children; authorizes school districts to include suicide prevention in health class curriculum. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02413 | Establishes that tuition rates shall grow by a percentage equal to the general support for public schools appropriation provided to schools. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02427 | Enacts hazing offenses and anti-hazing educational programs at educational institutions and requires educational institutions to maintain a public report on hazing violations. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| A02450 | Requires instruction in cursive writing as part of the basic education program. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02484 | Provides specific requirements for a course of instruction relating to the Holocaust and genocide. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02488 | Relates to the apportionment of moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building purposes. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02494 | Establishes the school safety specialist act; establishes a certification and training program for school safety specialists; outlines the roles and duties of school safety specialists. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02531 | Provides for an annual growth amount for tuition and regional rate reimbursement for approved school-age and preschool special education programs. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02545 | Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02549 | Requires monthly inspections of all AED equipment in all schools. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02576 | Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| A02616 | 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. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02618 | Directs the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the superintendent of state police and the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services, to establish standards for the security and safety of school grounds. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02621 | Enacts the "education funding census update act"; updates the census numbers used to calculate certain education funding. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02623 | Creates a transportation subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02625 | Establishes a pilot program to provide grants to local education providers to implement high-impact tutoring programs prioritizing low-income or underserved students to address student learning loss or unfinished learning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02632 | Establishes the first of April as the annual reporting deadline for the basic educational data system (BEDS); imposes some additional requirements for calculating and reporting a school's student population. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02634 | Expands the definition of tuition for children with handicapping conditions. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02641 | Establishes that any person who knowingly engages in a repeated course of cyberbullying of a minor is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by a period of imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02644 | Provides that any school district may establish a reserve fund for the payment of unanticipated costs related to pupil transportation in excess of public funds apportioned to districts for such purposes. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02648 | Provides public access to epinephrine auto-injector devices at schools; establishes public access epinephrine auto-injector device providers. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02659 | Requires a yearly inspection of all audiological testing equipment in all schools. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02662 | Grants priority to charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school administrators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02669 | Establishes a New York state education equity fund; authorizes the dormitory authority of the state of New York (DASNY) to invest $75 million in a public-private partnership revolving loan fund for loan financing to cover capital costs for the construction and improvements of public charter schools. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| A02687 | Establishes a center for dyslexia and dysgraphia within the department of education. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| A02697 | Requires yearly cardiac fitness certificates including an electrocardiogram or echocardiogram for interscholastic athletes in all public schools. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| A02717 | Establishes a school air conditioning system grant program to provide schools with funding to install air conditioning systems in certain areas; makes an appropriation therefor. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| A02718 | Requires electrocardiograms be provided by school health services to screen for heart conditions; requires electrocardiograms be conducted on students to screen for heart conditions in order to attend school. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| A03041 | Requires training for teachers, administrators and instructors in the area of mental health response; requires office of mental health to assist in development of curriculum for training. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03082 | Requires every middle school and every high school to provide instruction on vaccine science, including vaccine history and development, effects on the immune system, vaccine-preventable diseases and their spread, and vaccine safety and testing. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03097 | Provides for the establishment of police training high schools in certain city school districts; provides for further education and employment; establishes preferential admissions criteria for the state and city universities; establishes preferential civil service criteria in the recruitment of police officers. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03112 | Excludes certain tuition payments by school districts for general education and special students residing in such school districts from the calculation of the tax levy limit. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03128 | Requires schools to conduct annual lead testing on pipes and paint in all schools in New York city that provide schooling for children ages six and under and to remediate any presence of lead immediately if detected. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03131 | Provides for the viewing of photo or video footage captured by a camera installed inside a school bus, by a parent or guardian of a pupil, when such parent, guardian or pupil reports any incident of physical harm, harassment, intimidation or bullying occurring against the pupil while such pupil travelled on such school bus. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03146 | Provides that any standardized test or examination shall not be subject to any time limitation when administered by the city district. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03163 | Requires the regents to prescribe courses of instruction in state and local government in elementary and middle schools in the state; provides boards of education and trustees of the several cities and school districts of the state shall require instruction to be given in such courses by the teachers; requires similar instruction in private schools. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03173 | Requires school meal nutritional facts and ingredient list be provided for meals provided to students before serving such meal; allows such information to be posted on the school district website; requires the school district to notify parents or guardians of any changes in the meals, the new nutritional facts, and the itemized list of ingredients. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03183 | Directs the commissioner of education to establish a commission to study the needs of adolescents and the effect that school day start times have on the health and academic performance of students. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03185 | Requires a school nurse to be on the premises during school hours in any school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or more. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03194 | Provides that state aid payments due for prior years shall be paid either from funds available in the general support for public school appropriation as a result of the deduction of excess payments of aid; or within the limit of the appropriation designated therefor. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03196 | Establishes mandatory training for every high school guidance counselor relating to assisting students with autism spectrum disorder; requires high school guidance counselors to receive training at least once a year on the special needs of students with autism spectrum disorder and how to assist such students in the transition from high school to higher education or employment. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| A03232 | Expands the real property tax exemption for persons with disabilities to property owners who are a parent or parents of an individual with a disability and such individual lives at such property. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03257 | Exempts the costs associated with expenditures resulting from the purchase of BOCES services and programs from the real property tax levy limit. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03301 | Requires school districts, public libraries, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public elementary and secondary schools to provide and maintain on-site opioid antagonists. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03315 | Relates to culturally responsive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender education standards. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03340 | Relates to establishing the Gold Award and Eagle Scout achievement scholarship; authorizes a scholarship of $500 per year for high school graduates attending a New York state public post-secondary institution who have achieved a Gold Award from the Girl Scouts of the United States of America or an Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03371 | Directs the division of criminal justice services to develop information on the safe storage of firearms to be provided to parents of school children. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03375 | Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03396 | Imposes certain conditions on the approval of a charter school application for the conversion of an existing public school to a charter school. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03407 | Relates to designating the first Friday in February as the "New York statewide school day to help people in need". | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03420 | Creates a school budget tax cap exemption for expenditures resulting from settlements or jury awards for civil actions brought against school districts under the child victims act. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03429 | Prohibits school districts from authorizing a currently enrolled public school student to be home schooled when the superintendent of the school district is notified of a pending child abuse or neglect investigation or if either custodial parent or a person instructing the child has been convicted of domestic violence, child abuse, or neglect. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03430 | Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03431 | Grants a waiver in the amount of $52,000 to Adirondack Helping Hands for services rendered during the 2016--2017 school year; provides such waiver shall be allocated to costs associated with special class in an integrated setting spending for the 2016--2017 school year. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03433 | Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03435 | Relates to including at least one person who is familiar with the needs of students with disabilities in the development of school safety plans; provides that building-level response plans shall include a list including each student with a disability enrolled at the site together with information from the student's individualized education program (IEP) that is relevant to ensuring the student's safety and the role of the staff member responsible for assisting the student in an emergency. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03458 | Requires persistently dangerous schools to file an incident reduction plan detailing the steps the school will take to reduce incidents of violence and disruption; requires notice to be given to victims of harassment, bullying, or violent offenses of their right to transfer to another public school. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03513 | Requires the commissioner of education to develop guidelines to encourage those in high school to participate in apprenticeships and to raise awareness in apprenticeship opportunities. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03515 | Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety and swimming certification to certain parents or students upon enrollment; relates to promoting public awareness of the dangers of fatal and non-fatal drowning. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03560 | Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred for failure to receive timely payments of state aid, including expenses relating to interest payments and ancillary expenses incurred as a result of not having received aid in a timely manner. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03564 | Relates to the calculation of selected operating aid per pupil for the Boquet Valley central school district; provides the date of reorganization, July 1, 2019, shall be used when calculating. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03581 | Requires that instruction in financial literacy be provided to pupils in grades nine through twelve; establishes what should be included in such curriculum including the basics of financial planning, budgeting, borrowing, interest rates, and personal insurance policies. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03595 | Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03610 | Requires two qualified psychiatrists to be employed by each school district to perform and coordinate the provision of mental health services in the public schools. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| A03631 | Permits schools located within the state to purchase reduced fat or whole New York milk to provide or sell at such school. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| A03638 | Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in schools using a curriculum established by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03639 | Provides that charter school applicants shall first apply to the local board of education of the school district or the community district education council for approval or renewal of a charter. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03640 | Requires public schools to provide at least one flavored milk option at scheduled meal periods. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03660 | Establishes a state seal of financial literacy; provides such seal recognizes high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in personal finance, budget management, and investment. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| A03666 | Permits the principal of any high school to allow any local fire department, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of fire department junior recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| A03668 | Authorizes the state education department to contract for a program related to teacher recruitment and retention. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| A03677 | Authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enroll students in career and technical education courses. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| A03734 | Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03742 | Requires high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists during all school hours and after school activities. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03746 | Permits teachers licensed in another state to teach in New York while completing state-specific teaching certification or licensure requirements; establishes such requirements must be met within one year from the date such teacher began teaching in New York. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03752 | Expands the monitoring of student incidents within the online occurrence reporting system to maintain and store data for the entirety of a student's elementary and secondary education, in order to allow school principals to identify repeated incidents of behavior and determine if additional support or intervention is needed. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03773 | Requires that public school districts provide parents with notice of curriculum and obtain parental consent prior to providing sexual health education to students ten years of age or younger. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03824 | Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school; defines "agricultural learning events" as including FFA events and 4-H programs. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03860 | Directs that a school in which a student is attending or will attend shall accept a medical immunization exemption. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03902 | Declares the last Friday in October, known as Pulaski Day, a school holiday. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03909 | Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights; requires eleventh and twelfth graders to receive education on workplace rights; requires a document on workplace rights to be provided to any minor seeking working papers. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03937 | Requires the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate at least a three credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary for effective literacy instruction which shall include delivering structured, systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction aligned with the science of reading for prospective teachers. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03950 | Requires the school district of location shall annually provide written notice to all parents or persons in parental relation to students with disabilities attending nonpublic schools within their district regarding the process for requesting special education services; relates to the denial of services in a city having a population of one million or more for the 2024--2025 school year. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03958 | Relates to the computation of building aid for the construction, reconstruction or modernizing of no more than one project by the Boquet Valley Central school district. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A03966 | Requires instruction on the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol and its aftermath in all schools in the state. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A04008 | Prohibits the sale of food containing Red Dye 3 and Red Dye 40 in public schools from the beginning of the day until the last scheduled meal period. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A04024 | Authorizes the delivery of telehealth services in schools by licensed providers. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| A04091 | Establishes an educational program related to the prevention of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia bias and discrimination based on religion, race, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04111 | Requires annual screenings for depression of students in grades seven through twelve; requires the department of education and the department of health to review data pertaining to the results of such screenings for local and statewide trends concerning teenage depression. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04137 | Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to attend career education classes. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04143 | Requires the commissioner of education to establish standards, rules or regulations requiring that all chaperones or volunteers of school trips which involve taking students out of the state or out of the country be trained in first aid and to recognize certain medical emergencies. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04154 | Includes the Sandy Ground community, the oldest continuously inhabited free black settlement in the United States, in the education curriculum. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04166 | Requires automated external defibrillator equipment to be immediately available at school-sponsored events; requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04174 | Requires that parents of students at student orientations, back to school nights, or other beginning of year events, at schools that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program, receive notification of eligibility, and access to application, for free or reduced price meals for students. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04183 | Prohibits the use of corporal punishment in schools; defines corporal punishment to include prohibiting the use of aversive interventions and time out rooms. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04197 | Requires instruction in owning and operating a business including, but not limited to, basic financial literacy necessary for sound financial decision-making, leadership, management, communication, budgeting, savings, credit, debt, insurance, taxation, and other issues associated with owning and operating a business. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04203 | Establishes the gifted education reinforcement act to establish statewide standards for gifted education programs; requires school districts to be accountable for providing such programs. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04226 | Requires elementary and secondary school libraries provide equitable access to physical and digital media. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04242 | Requires the commissioner of education, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to develop a bleeding control kit program which requires bleeding control kits to be installed in easily accessible areas of schools; requires training of personnel to use bleeding control kits in the event of an injury to another person. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04243 | Exempts Wantagh union free school district from laws, rules, or regulations regarding the use of indigenous names, mascots, and logos. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04257 | Relates to providing secondary school pupils and adults in career education programs access to programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair; establishes the working group on electric vehicle career education achievement. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04269 | Provides that a minor from six to sixteen years being absent from full time day instruction for the purpose of sounding "Taps" at a military honors funeral held in this state for a deceased veteran shall be excused from school. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04289 | Requires certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch to students with dietary restrictions free of charge. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04291 | Requires certain teachers who provide literacy instruction obtain a literacy endorsement. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04308 | Requires the commissioner of education of the state of New York to conduct a study on the sufficiency of current education aid apportionment formulas, make recommendations for improvements to such formulas and deliver a report of such findings and recommendations and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04314 | Provides that where a pupil may be considered a dangerous threat to themself or others, such pupil may be suspended for no more than ten days prior to a hearing taking place to allow the school to have adequate time to make an evaluation on the pupil's mental health, which may include a psychiatric evaluation, and the risk of danger to others and to consult with law enforcement. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04343 | Requires the commissioner of education to produce a school aid computer listing based on updated current law where there is no school aid computer listing produced by the commissioner in support of an executive budget request. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04378 | Relates to authorizing grants for the implementation of the seal of civic readiness program; authorizes grants of $50,000 to no more than 20 applicant school districts for public schools that have successfully completed both the seal of civic readiness application and commissioner created grant application. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04381 | Requires schools to accept credits for educational programs at OCFS facilities as transfer credits. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04382 | Provides that elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will be conducted at the first annual meeting after the meeting during which number of seats was increased. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04384 | Requires that nominating petitions for small city school district elections be submitted no later than thirty days prior to the election; provides for a ten-day period for objecting to any nominating petitions; outlines the duties of the clerk of the board of education in finalizing the ballot after the ten-day objection period; provides that certain provisions concerning the date of the drawing for the names on the ballot do not apply to small city school districts. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04388 | Prohibits the use of remote or virtual learning as a form of punishment or disciplinary action; provides exceptions for failure to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04394 | Enacts the "omnibus learning for work act"; establishes the youth apprenticeship program (Part A); establishes the enhanced regents professional diploma (Part B); establishes a youth apprenticeship tax credit (Part C); establishes the community college merit and mobility scholarship (Part D); renames certain schools established by a board of cooperative educational services as career prep centers (Part E); relates to the salary of certain teachers and staff providing instruction in career and te | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04411 | Relates to empowering school boards to make decisions regarding employment based on performance, qualifications and the best interests of the students. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04433 | Requires all public and private schools to provide financial literacy education to pupils in grade eleven; directs that certain topics be covered in such educational program. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04446 | Authorizes two or more school districts in certain counties to enter into a contract to establish and operate a regional high school. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04453 | Relates to requiring a service center for independent living to be located in the county of Ontario. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04485 | Continues the New York State Pathways in Technology Early College High School Program in this state; requires the commissioner to allocate funds for new P-TECH programs for the purposes of preparing eligible academically at-risk and/or economically disadvantaged students for high-skill jobs. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04492 | Requires new teachers applying for certification or a license including childhood education teachers, early education teachers, special education teachers, or reading specialists to have completed training for evidence-based reading instruction. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04512 | Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04516 | Requires school districts to establish a language assistance program for limited English proficient parents of students; requires record keeping and annual reporting; permits districts to jointly establish such programs. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04551 | Creates the task force on early childhood education in public education to study the feasibility of incorporating younger age levels into the state public education system and extending the public education system to start at the age of six months and incorporate aspects of childcare and early childhood education into the existing public education system. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04573 | Allows school principals in the city of New York to hire coaches who are not also teachers, provided that such coaches meet the qualifications set forth by relevant athletic organizations. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04595 | Establishes certain statewide literacy education programs including standards for an early education program, statewide parents as teachers program, a reading program to provide direct support for and intervention in intensive reading intervention services, and the district reading intervention program. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04600 | Relates to grants for facilities providing prekindergarten services; promotes the financial viability of such facilities. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04638 | Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04656 | Provides that a mental health certificate shall be requested from each student at the same time health certificates are required; provides that an assessment and mental health history of any child may be requested by the local school authorities at any time in their discretion to promote the educational interests of such child; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04663 | Establishes the New York state school safety and security act; establishes the office of school safety and security to perform assessments of educational facilities for safety and security and provide safety and security training; establishes the school safety and security advisory board to establish school safety and security best practices and resources; imposes a one percent tax on mobile sports wagering to fund such office. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04668 | Allows any veteran who has served this nation to be awarded a high school degree based on their knowledge and experience gained while in service. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04681 | Expands the powers of boards of education to temporarily lease necessary space to include when facilities are under construction. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04683 | Relates to the date of school district annual organizational meetings; allows boards of education to meet on any date on or before the Monday after July 20th for their annual organizational meeting. | Crossed Over | 02/04/2025 |
| A04684 | Authorizes school districts to enter into a lease outside of such school district when it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the commissioner of education that extenuating circumstances exist which necessitate a lease outside of the school district. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04687 | Protects women's sports in middle school and high school from unfair competition. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04698 | Relates to payments made by school districts to charter schools. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04707 | Requires minors under 18 years to attend school on a full-time basis, unless such minor is seventeen or older and enrolled in a vocational or occupational education program, with the consent of the school district and the person in parental relation with the minor; requires such minor must enroll in GED course until age of 19 years, if the person leaves school. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04741 | Directs the commissioner of education to establish a statewide school safety tip line to permit students and others to report information related to incidents of students causing harm to the physical or mental health of another student or school employee, or a threat of such harm. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04750 | Requires the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health, to develop model mental health screenings for students and associated guidelines to assist school mental health screeners to perform mental health screening services to identify concerns in students' mental health. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04752 | Prohibits the approval of a charter school application when such school would operate within the Buffalo city school district. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04758 | Defines antisemitism for purposes of certain reviews of practices by the department of education. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04805 | Directs school districts to establish school threat assessment teams and implement plans to intervene where a student exhibits behavior indicating an intent to harm themselves or others and to address underlying needs of the student. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04828 | Improves the transportation of children with special needs to and from school; provides that bussing time shall not exceed one and one-half hours; provides a special needs liaison to work with each family with a child with special needs; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04833 | Disallows an application for a charter school to be approved if a state monitor or fiscal monitor is not operating in such school district. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04854 | Provides that the commissioner of education may also withhold from any district or city its share of the public money of the state for willfully disobeying any provision of law, or for such decisions, orders or regulations as aforesaid whose willful violation constitutes an immediate threat to the health, safety, education or welfare of students, employees or visitors at such common school, educational institution, school district or public school. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04876 | Requires that public schools provide instruction on climate change, including but not limited to identifying the causes and impacts of climate change on individuals, environments and communities, and learning to evaluate solutions. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| A04888 | Relates to a parent's right to know if an employee, volunteer or an administrator of a school district is reprimanded for inappropriate conduct towards their child; enacts "parent's right to know" act. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04903 | Establishes a career and technical education (CTE) diploma; establishes a CTE pathway to a diploma shall be based on a curriculum designed to provide students with technical skills and shall demonstrate that the student is ready for a career as determined by regulations of the commissioner. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04920 | Establishes Three King's day as a school holiday for all public schools in a city school district of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04923 | Requires age-appropriate instruction on conflict resolution for elementary, middle, and high school students; requires the commissioner to develop curricula for schools in the state for such instruction; directs the commissioner to develop resource materials to facilitate such instruction. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04924 | Provides for parental notification when charter schools receive a corrective action plan or are given a short-term renewal. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04927 | Prohibits a town, city, or county industrial development agency from waiving taxes which would be received by a school district. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04930 | Creates an adult high school workforce development demonstration project in Rochester; defines "adult high school workforce development demonstration project" or "program" to mean a private or independent high school registered by the department which provides adult learners with an appropriate academic environment, career credentialing programs and access to wraparound services provided by the operator or any entity partnered which such operator to address barriers to enable adult learners to p | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04970 | Relates to classroom safety mechanisms, emergency medical equipment, and evidence-based best practices for school safety planning and training. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04975 | Repeals provisions of law requiring certain cities pay for certain charter school rents. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A04980 | Adds training of school personnel in non-lethal defense skills to requirements for school safety plans. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| A05040 | Provides reimbursement to districts for any student attending a boards of cooperative educational services program. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| A05048 | Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections in Orange County. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| A05049 | Establishes the task force on education funding and property tax reform within the education department to conduct a comprehensive study and provide recommendations on education funding and the role of property taxes in funding New York's education system. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| A05052 | Requires high schools in grades nine through twelve to provide a course in financial literacy; requires students to complete such course as a condition of graduation. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| A05073 | Provides that contract cost adjustments in the middle of contract terms for school districts transportation contracts shall be at no additional cost to the state, locality or school district unless such amendment is necessary to comply with the statewide transition to zero-emission buses and provided that it has been established by the contractor that there has been at least an equivalent increase in the amount of such contractor's cost of operation. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05086 | Extends provisions of law relating to monitor of the Wyandanch union free school district from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2030. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05107 | Provides grants to nonprofit organizations that provide eligible home reading programs that provide independent reading level books that are individually mailed to the residences of kindergarten through fifth grade students on a weekly basis. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05112 | Extends the powers of the monitor of the Wyandanch union free school district to include overriding of any resolutions or motions; authorizes the monitor to direct the board, superintendent, and/or other school district officers to undergo any necessary training; grants the monitor the power to approve or disapprove the appointment of the superintendent by the board of education; requires an academic improvement plan to be developed by the board of education and the monitor. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05120 | Requires the commissioner of education to establish a uniform dress code across all public high schools. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05148 | Prohibits certain punishments and interventions in schools including corporal punishment, chemical restraints, mechanical restraints and other aversive interventions; authorizes limited use of timeouts and necessary physical restraints; creates a private right of action for violations. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05149 | Relates to school property and real property taxes; establishes the blue ribbon commission on property tax reform; relates to state assistance for local real property reassessment, state assistance to assessing units within a school district, providing a fixed real property assessed value for residential real property owned by certain persons over the age of 65 and providing state reimbursement to municipalities for lost real property tax revenue; requires the state to fund certain programs mand | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05168 | Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05180 | Requires school districts to refer a newly-registering child with a disability for evaluation within forty-eight hours of the time of the first contact between the school district and the person or entity registering the student with the school district, provided a request for referral has been made. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05203 | Relates to reimbursement of school districts for expenditures resulting from certain civil action settlements or jury awards related to child sex offenses if there was a monetary judgement issued or settlement agreement, the school district has no applicable insurance and the settlement or jury award would put a substantial financial burden on the school district. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05211 | Relates to librarians of school libraries. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05243 | Establishes the high school peer mentoring pilot program. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05247 | Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05250 | Requires annual reporting by city school districts in cities with a population of over two hundred fifty thousand regarding the arbitration process in teacher disciplinary proceedings. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05260 | Requires cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05273 | Implements a state-wide plan to prevent and reduce the use of seclusion and physical restraint in schools; prohibits the use of seclusion, mechanical restraint, chemical restraint, and dangerous restraints that restrict breathing on students; authorizes annual appropriations to provide grants to school districts; provides for more rapid notice to parents if restraints or seclusion is used on a student. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05281 | Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05301 | Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05302 | Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted an annual meeting and election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting if less than eight percent of registered voters cast ballots as a direct consequence of a disaster. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| A05310 | Makes permanent the provisions relating to services to out-of-state school districts by boards of cooperative educational services. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05312 | Authorizes high school students to vote on city-wide education councils regardless of age. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05313 | Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05314 | Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05333 | Requires all school districts to purchase and provide assistive technology devices no later than two months after an item is put on a student's individualized education program. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05343 | Provides grants for schoolyards and playgrounds to become living schoolyards which provide outdoor learning spaces for students. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05347 | Authorizes the department of health to establish an indoor air quality inspection, measurement and evaluation program; defines terms; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05360 | Provides that any board or trustees of each school district or board of cooperative educational services shall employ a minimum of one school nurse in each school building. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05373 | Prohibits civil arrest in school settings; prohibits all public and charter schools from allowing law enforcement officials inside school property to access a student, except to address an imminent safety situation or if they have an appropriate judicial warrant or judicial order. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05400 | Requires the department of education create an online database of seats available for non-public and public institutions who offer college opportunity programs and provide such information to authorized high school counselors. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05403 | Prohibits discrimination against and harassment or bullying of students by other students on school property or at a school function; requires schools to investigate reports of bullying; requires schools to adopt a written, plain-language anti-bullying and harassment policy; requires school employees to report incidents of bullying or harassment; establishes a grant program to assist non-public schools with compliance. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| A05450 | Establishes the advanced coursework expansion incentive grant program to school districts who offer advanced courses to economically disadvantaged students. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05464 | Establishes requirements for library material in public school libraries and public libraries; requires the development of policies for removal of materials; establishes protections for school library media specialists and librarians against harassment and discrimination in employment related to the refusal to remove library materials. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05474 | Authorizes occupational therapy services to be provided in school to students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelve with occupational impairments of a severity that does not adversely affect the student's educational performance but does present a barrier to functioning at home or in the community; directs the commissioner to promulgate rules and regulations for the provision of such occupational therapy services. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05483 | Prohibits the permanent or temporary housing of migrant populations in schoolhouses or on school grounds in districts outside of a city with a population of one million or more. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05509 | Permits certain schools to provide hemostatic agents for use during emergencies. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05540 | Requires all schools have a calming space for students for praying, meditating, and calming themselves. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05547 | Authorizes school districts to establish an extraordinary needs reserve fund for the expenses of providing special education. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05555 | Directs the department of education to establish model codes of conduct on school property regarding cellphone use. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| A05591 | Authorizes the city school district of the city of Salamanca to establish a reserve fund for federal impact aid in the event such aid is reduced. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| A05593 | Provides a $500,000 supplemental valuation impact grant to the West Valley central school district during the 2024--2025 school year. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| A05594 | Creates a single, streamlined process whereby a facility or program operating both a pre-kindergarten program and a daycare program may apply for and receive any certification, licensing, or other requirement otherwise necessary to operate a pre-kindergarten program or daycare program under the laws of the state. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| A05610 | Allocates the Amistad commission to work alongside the department of education and on behalf of students in the state; repeals certain provisions relating to the Amistad commission; requires schools in the state to provide curriculum relating to Black history, slavery, and race. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| A05632 | Relates to apportioning aid for career in education in school districts located in a city with a population between 62,000 and 65,000 or between 67,000 and 70,000 as recorded in the 2010 census. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| A05642 | Establishes an office of special education services within the state education department to administer programs for children with disabilities to be headed by an assistant commissioner appointed by the board of regents. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| A05643 | Provides that prior year claims due to school districts shall be paid out of any excess settlement amount recovered by the attorney general prior to being apportioned to the general fund. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| A05689 | Creates a computer science course requirement for graduation from high school; directs the department of education to design and implement such program. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05691 | Requires the commissioner to establish domestic violence awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; requires content to be age appropriate. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05724 | Expands the health education curriculum to include breast cancer screenings including age appropriate instruction in performing self-examinations. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05745 | Creates substance use prevention and recovery resource materials which include age-appropriate information on the risks of drug use, overdoses, and how to include resources from outside of the school district to improve instruction. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05750 | Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations that provide for the immediate decertification of any teacher who is convicted of a felony under NY law or any offense under the laws of another jurisdiction that would be a felony under NY law. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05752 | Makes certain provisions applicable to public schools relating to instruction in civility, citizenship and character education. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05754 | Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of co-occurring disorders as an integral part of their health education programs. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05755 | Relates to incorporating art and music into prekindergarten programs. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05763 | Requires public schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m. and that no public high school within the state shall start before an elementary school starts within the same school district. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05777 | Establishes the underrepresented teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain underrepresented certified teachers in schools which have an underrepresentation of underrepresented certified teachers; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05788 | Amends the New York state college choice tuition savings program to have the program also apply to elementary and secondary schools. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05820 | Permits borough presidents to remove persons they appointed to a community district education council for criminal wrongdoing or misconduct. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05821 | Enacts the "media literacy act"; requires teachers and library media specialists to complete professional development related to media literacy education; requires a school library media specialist in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school; directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory committee to study the teaching of media literacy; creates a media literacy advisory committee to annually review policy and procedures on media lite | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| A05855 | Requires the administration for children's services and New York city public school employees provide a verbal and written warning to students of such student's right to refuse an interview and right to have a supportive adult during the interview. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| A05926 | Provides that the tax levy limit shall be equal to a zero percent increase over the prior year tax levy when the difference between the total amount of taxes levied for the prior year less the tax levy limit results in a negative number. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A05949 | Mandates the trustees of common school districts and the board of education of every union free school district to establish a code of ethics to be applied to the prohibition of the use of school resources for personal gain. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A05954 | Prohibits students from possessing cellphones during classroom instruction. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A05990 | Adopts the interstate teacher mobility compact to facilitate the mobility of teachers across member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through new pathways to licensure; establishes a regulatory framework to expedite and enhance the ability of teachers to move across state lines. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06008 | Relates to the amount of surplus funds which may be retained by a school district; establishes surplus funds for the 2024-2025 school year through the 2028-2029 school year shall mean any operating funds in excess of 8% of the current school year budget. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06014 | Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays with or adjacent to automated external defibrillator cabinets. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| A06046 | Prohibits the use of certain restraints and aversive interventions against students; includes policies and procedures for responding to students who have mental health crises in school safety plans; provides that no student shall be subjected to chemical restraints, mechanical restraints, or seclusion on school property; requires the board of education or trustees of each public school and school district to develop a procedure to notify the parent or legal guardian of a student on the same day | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06066 | Establishes a high school robotics grant program; provides funding to high schools for participation in robotics competitions; sets forth eligibility requirements; provides for the application and awards process. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06070 | Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer certain seizure rescue medication in schools, on school grounds and at school events; provides that such medicine may be left with a school health official to be used as needed. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06072 | Requires funding for special education services and programs for preschool children with disabilities to cover joint classroom instruction for such children with disabilities and other children for the same number of hours each day. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06102 | Relates to apportionment of public moneys to school districts employing eight or more teachers in high need districts. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06112 | Provides the Board of Regents with final approval authority over all proposed and renewed charter schools. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06118 | Directs the commissioner of education to provide for the proportionate availability of adequate school supplies for use by left-handed students where adequate supplies are available for use by right-handed students; applies to any school supplies and equipment purchased by the department or schools on or after the effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of education. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06121 | Establishes a school resource officer unit within the division of state police; permits every school district within the state to request the placement of a member of such unit at any building, structure or facility primarily used for the instruction of students located within such district. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06131 | Authorizes city boards, city-wide councils, community councils and school based management teams to conduct meetings via videoconferencing. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06144 | Requires instruction in agriculture in every elementary, middle, and high school under state control or supported wholly or partly by the state. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06157 | Relates to school district unexpended surplus funds; provides that for the 2027--2028 school year and thereafter, surplus funds shall mean any operating funds in excess of six percent of the current school year budget, and shall not include funds properly retained under other sections of law. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06187 | Provides that all schools shall have a multi-cultural curriculum. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| A06206 | Provides for high need and average need school districts to receive additional financial aid for each student if such school district spends ten percent less per student than the regional average spending per student. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06207 | Establishes schools dedicated to teaching dyslexic students in certain school districts. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06208 | Requires screening for dyslexia; provides for intervention services for dyslexic children. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06209 | Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06215 | Permits instruction in hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06237 | Relates to establishing Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam as school holidays. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06242 | Provides that the East Ramapo central school district shall be eligible to receive an apportionment of funds to be used for services and expenses; directs certain reports to be submitted. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| A06276 | Allows boards of cooperative educational services to install school bus stop sign cameras. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| A06286 | Requires teachers employed by the Buffalo school district to reside within Buffalo city limits. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| A06302 | Increases from 9 to 11 the number of members on the board of education for the city school district of Buffalo; provides for appointment of two members by the Mayor of the city of Buffalo. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| A06312 | Relates to the financing of charter schools and apportionments. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| A06318 | Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06356 | Requires parents of a child who qualifies for admission to a public school building in good standing with the department to provide a justification and educational-based reasoning to the superintendent of such school building prior to submitting an application to admission at a charter school. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06383 | Enables students to receive information from colleges and universities without disclosing their personally identifiable information via an opt-in system. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06384 | Relates to the number and duties of assistant principals to be assigned to the schools in the city school district of the city of New York. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06385 | Requires the board of education in the city of Buffalo to submit the school district budget to the voters for approval prior to adoption. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06386 | Establishes a grant program for New York city's public K-12 schools which are eligible for support provided under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, for the purposes of installing laundry equipment for facilities for use by students and parents or guardians of students. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06413 | Prohibits the sale of food and food products containing boneless lean beef trimmings, commonly referred to as "pink slime", in schools. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06415 | Establishes the commission on diversity in specialized schools. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06418 | Relates to providing access to laptops for high school and higher education students and textbooks for higher education students; provides access to laptops and textbooks without charge. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| A06470 | Prohibits discrimination against and harassment or bullying of students by employees or students on private, religious or denominational school property or at a school function; provides immunity from civil liability for a person making a good faith report of discrimination, harassment or bullying to authorities. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06478 | Separates interscholastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06486 | Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06488 | Directs the department of education to establish model codes of conduct on school property regarding cellphone use. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06490 | Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students; requires school districts to ensure that appropriately certified teachers are providing such education; authorizes rules and regulations consistent with such provisions. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06495 | Enacts the "Tevyan Rowe child and young teen mental health community safety act"; directs boards of education to create policies, procedures, and guidelines for at-risk children and young teens who have demonstrated suicidal ideation, been victims of harassment or bullying, and/or who have eloped from school property; establishes a commission to evaluate the safety and security of children in primary and secondary public and private schools in this state. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06536 | Renames boards of cooperative educational services to NY polytechnical institutes. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| A06547 | Requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, charter schools and nonpublic schools to establish cellphone policies and procedures; requires the establishment of a committee to develop such policies and procedures; requires such policies and procedures to be individually tailored to specific school environments. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06583 | Relates to the allocation of prekindergarten funding to prioritize students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and multilingual learners. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06591 | Requires instruction in public schools aligned to the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework; requires the commissioner of education to update learning standards on an ongoing basis and provide technical assistance and resources to aid public schools in providing such instruction. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06594 | Provides that in a city with a population of one million or more, where a student is applying to attend a public elementary or middle school and such student has a sibling who already attends such school, such student whose application is pending shall be given preference for admission. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06605 | Allows school resource officers to be hired with salary aidable to the school district; raises retirement salaries for such officers to fifty thousand dollars. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06606 | Establishes protections for the rights of pregnant students, parenting students, and students with pregnancy-related conditions in schools; requires schools to establish liaison officers for such students and to disseminate information relating to resources available to such students. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06619 | Increases the state subsidy for school lunch meals. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06636 | Relates to the burden of proof for appeal procedures for children with handicapping conditions; shifts the burden to the parent or person in parental relationship. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06693 | Provides schools the option to operate one hundred eighty days of instruction or the equivalent number of hours of pupil instruction. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| A06701 | Requires construction contractors hired to perform work on certain school buildings and facilities to acquire a transportation worker identification credential card issued by the Transportation Security Administration prior to beginning work on such buildings and facilities. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| A06720 | Prohibits the use of biometric identifying technology in schools for any reason other than certain specified purposes; adds fingerprint identification of teachers, administrators and students for the purpose of securely logging into a digital device for academic and administrative purpose to allowable purposes. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| A06731 | Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers from 18 to 16. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| A06733 | Establishes the New York state school resource officer program; provides for grants for school resource officers (Part A); relates to peace officers who are retired police officers employed by a school district as a school resource officer (Part B); allows retired police officers to be employed by a school district as a school safety officer, school security officer or any other substantially similar position for an annual salary of $50,000 or less to continue to receive their full retirement be | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| A06746 | Requires school districts and charter schools to include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions, and lifeways of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| A06747 | Relates to additional apportionment of building aid for certain projects; defines an eligible school construction project as one that is entirely funded from capital outlays and has a total project cost of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| A06749 | Requires schools to provide for health education pertaining to cannabis use. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| A06760 | Requires every school district to conduct a transition feasibility analysis within the next succeeding school year as of the effective date of this act, and every five years thereafter, to determine the feasibility of using zero-emission school buses on current routes. | In Committee | 03/12/2025 |
| A06789 | Relates to Tier 1 high tax aid apportionment and foundation aid. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06791 | Provides for the time period bases and manner of payment of employment preparation education apportionment state aid. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06792 | Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06799 | Provides an annual tax levy limit allowing for expenditures directly or indirectly related to school safety, including improving district wide emergency response plans, training staff and/or students on school safety and/or conflict mediation, installing and maintaining safety technology and software in school buildings, hiring school resource officers, acquiring emergency medical equipment, installing fencing around the perimeter of school grounds, installing bulletproof doors and windows, acqu | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06809 | Relates to repair reserve funds for municipal corporations, school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, district corporations and improvement districts. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06826 | Provides the same adjustment for capital apportionment to high need school districts bordering the city of New York as used by school districts of the city of New York. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06827 | Relates to the establishment of multi-year cost allowances for the Mount Vernon city school district. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06828 | Relates to providing funding for transitional programs for students from English-speaking Caribbean countries who are not eligible for limited English proficiency programs. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06834 | Relates to transportation services for the school districts of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| A06874 | Establishes the Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act which establishes an artificial intelligence literacy in the digital equity competitive grant program. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06882 | Relates to requirements for applications for charter schools. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06884 | Provides additional requirements for approval of charter school applications; applies additional prohibitions to charter schools; requires certain financial disclosures by charter schools; requires charter schools to comply with provisions relating to construction, repair or demolition of school facilities; relates to admission of students. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06891 | Relates to revisions to charter schools that would expand the grades served at such charter schools. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06896 | Provides that where practicable, school districts in which schools are utilized as polling places shall schedule conference or professional development days on primary or election days when the polls are open to voters, and if students are present during hours when polls are open, school districts shall take measures to ensure that the general public shall not access other areas of the school outside of the polling place. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06897 | Establishes family literacy programs for economically disadvantaged families living in poverty areas or areas with low-performing public schools; provides for competitive matching grants to establish a comprehensive program; requires commissioner of education to submit an annual report to the governor and legislature. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06902 | Prohibits the establishment of new charter schools, or the revision of any charter in, or within a five mile radius of, the Hempstead union free school district, the Uniondale union free school district, or the Roosevelt union free school district. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06939 | Requires each school district to ensure that every public or private school in which school days exceed five hours in duration provides a minimum of thirty minutes of daily recess within the school day for all students in kindergarten through fifth grade and for students in sixth grade who attend an elementary school. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A06972 | Creates an artificial intelligence working group within the department of education for the purpose of developing guidance and a model policy on the safe and effective use of artificial intelligence in ways that benefit, and do not harm, pupils and educators. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A07029 | Directs the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents regarding the incorporation of instruction in artificial intelligence system literacy into the school curriculum at the elementary, junior high and senior high levels; directs the board of regents to adopt guidelines if the curriculum is adopted. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| A07042 | Increases the required number of instructional days in a school year to two hundred. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07046 | Provides test preparation for students in the seventh grade and eighth grade intending to apply to take the specialized high school admissions test. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07091 | Relates to establishing the Beacon School Pilot Program in New York city schools. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07093 | Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city school district. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07096 | Requires that health and welfare services and facilities paid by a school district for a student attending school outside the district be no greater than the district's cost. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07115 | Removes the board of trustees of the state university of New York as a charter entity. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07130 | Adjusts state qualitative skill education assessment standards. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07135 | Establishes a career explorations class to integrate academic and vocational education, link secondary and post-secondary education and provide learning activities and mentoring at the work site; provides students with school-based learning and work-based learning. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07141 | Relates to the establishment, organization, and administration of charter schools. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| A07159 | Directs the commissioner of education to create a pilot program to improve social and emotional learning in schools. | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| A07211 | Authorizes and requires the board of regents to set acceptable standards for the issuance of diplomas to students who are homeschooled. | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| A07212 | Extends a provision of law regarding the disposal of surplus computer equipment by political subdivisions. | Crossed Over | 03/21/2025 |
| A07240 | Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more. | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| A07257 | Relates to charter schools; clarifies the transparency and accountability of charter schools and provides fiscal relief to the school districts where charter schools are located. | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| A07314 | Provides Yonkers city school district with additional supplemental education improvement plan funds. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07343 | Relates to in-school vision examination screenings for students ages three to five; establishes parent notification requirements. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07358 | Relates to delaying the implementation of class size reduction plans and including additional exemptions to class size targets; provides such plans shall begin in September 2031 and be achieved by September 2036; adds gifted and talented schools and programs, screened admissions schools and programs, portfolio and specialized high schools and advanced placement classes; requires parents at each respective school be included on any discussions regarding class size exemptions. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07362 | Requires all school employees complete student mental wellness training on identifying signs and symptoms of mental health issues, eating disorders, behavioral health disorders, and substance use disorders, the use of evidence-based training programs including, but not limited to, mental health first aid or core elements of such programs to the extent practicable, and safe de-escalation of crisis situations. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07385 | Authorizes an additional $125 million for Phase 3 of the Rochester school facilities modernization program; extends phase 3 of the Rochester school facilities modernization program to 2033. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07398 | Requires public elementary schools to start no earlier than eight a.m. and public secondary schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07399 | Requires teachers to offer students the option to participate in a one-minute period of silent meditation at the beginning of each school day. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07404 | Requires student athletes participating in public school sponsored athletics complete anti-bullying, anti-hazing and anti-harassment training. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07407 | Permits public schools to utilize or display indigenous names. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| A07480 | Grants a special apportionment to school districts having a population of between 195,000 and 219,000, for additional expenses incurred in the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years associated with changes in public pension liabilities. | In Committee | 03/28/2025 |
| A07496 | Establishes the healthy and safe students act; requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards. | In Committee | 03/28/2025 |
| A07536 | Requires high schools to teach first aid instruction to students in grades nine through twelve. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07557 | Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders, including but not limited to, endometriosis. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07575 | Authorizes the commissioner of education to appoint a monitor to oversee the Mount Vernon city school district; establishes the powers and duties of such monitor. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07586 | Relates to the completion of and information contained in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems assessments as part of building condition surveys for purposes of grant eligibility; requires such assessments to include a report containing specific information and includes qualification requirements for the person completing the report. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07590 | Relates to purchases of food products for school meals from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors; prohibits sale of school foods containing certain synthetic color additives; establishes a "healthy kitchens, healthy schools program" to provide grants for kitchen upgrades; prohibits school meals from containing more than 25 grams of added sugars per day, in aggregate. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07593 | Requires entities selling zero-emission school buses to provide an independent range estimate to prospective purchasers; requires the office of general services to promulgate regulations and to provide zero-emission school bus manufacturers with a list of parties that may provide independent range verification. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07673 | Relates to promoting equity and diversity in educational leadership and prioritize the issuance of new charters to community-based organizations run by individuals from historically underrepresented communities. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| A07674 | Permits special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to establish reserve funds. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| A07687 | Updates provisions relating to dignity for all students including establishing the student suicide prevention act which includes curriculum and teacher training requirements designed to prevent student suicide with a focus on LGBTQ students. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| A07700 | Requires schools report certain threats and acts of violence to the federal bureau of investigation, the state police, and the office of mental health. | In Committee | 04/08/2025 |
| A07741 | Protects women's sports in middle school and high school from unfair competition. | In Committee | 04/08/2025 |
| A07752 | Authorizes the chancellor of the city district to control and operate certain specialized high schools in the city of New York; establishes a commission on middle school achievement to provide guidance, advice, and make recommendations to the chancellor of the city district on matters pertaining to education policy, performance and innovation in New York city middle schools; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof. | In Committee | 04/08/2025 |
| A07772 | Clarifies the application of standardized testing requirements to the general education development exam by explicitly including it in the definition of "standardized test" and "test". | In Committee | 04/10/2025 |
| A07777 | Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available. | In Committee | 04/10/2025 |
| A07808 | Enacts the Educational Rights Transparency for New York Families Act, to establish standards for resource based educational rights of students within the state and implement a system of self-assessment and reporting by schools and school districts. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07816 | Permits schools located within the state to purchase reduced fat or whole New York milk to provide or sell at such school; defines New York milk as raw milk produced by milking cows within the state, transported to a dairy processing center within the state, and processed as fluid milk into containers intended for distribution to consumers. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07850 | Requires memorization of multiplication tables as part of the basic education program in public schools. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07867 | Provides for accelerated payments to the city school district of the city of Mount Vernon. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07879 | Waives tuition requirements for nonresident pupils if the nonresident pupil is enrolled in a school where the pupil's parent or guardian is a principal, a teacher or a paraprofessional or the nonresident pupil is enrolled at another school within the same district as a school where the pupil's parent or guardian is a principal, a teacher or a paraprofessional. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07889 | Requires transportation after 4pm be provided for certain students by school districts in Sullivan county. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07904 | Authorizes school districts to establish reserve funds for special services or programs upon approval by the board of education of such district in an amount not to exceed 10% of other reserve funds of the district. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07908 | Creates a service learning program for students serving as active volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers; mandates certain features of such program. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07919 | Enacts Firefighter Joseph P. Spor Jr.'s Law; requires the commissioner of education to establish September eleventh awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; requires the education department to make curriculum materials and other resources regarding September eleventh available on its website. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A07977 | Strengthens protections against discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on actual or perceived immigration status, and to improve implementation and oversight under the Dignity for All Students Act. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| A07979 | Enacts "Alexandra's law" to require school districts and charter schools to include in the curriculum or instruction teaching students how to recognize and react to rip currents, rip tides and undertows. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| A08024 | Provides for the appointment of a monitor team to oversee the Wyandanch union free school district on the academic, fiscal and operational status of such school district; extends such provisions of law five years from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2030. | In Committee | 04/22/2025 |
| A08035 | Relates to building aid for incremental zero-emission school bus infrastructure costs provided through the 2034-2035 school year. | In Committee | 04/22/2025 |
| A08064 | Enacts the student journalist education act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school. | In Committee | 04/22/2025 |
| A08073 | Promotes the inclusion of children living in temporary housing in prekindergarten programs; requires school districts to prioritize homeless children on any pre-K waitlists and provides for the reimbursement to school districts of hiring additional staff to accommodate the enrollment of a homeless child. | In Committee | 04/24/2025 |
| A08094 | Details the procedure that certain school districts must follow when dealing with disciplinary actions for bus drivers and bus drivers' assistants. | In Committee | 04/28/2025 |
| A08100 | Establishes instruction in financial literacy for students in sixth through eighth grade; requires such instruction to include content on budgeting, savings, credit, debt, insurance, investment, and other issues associated with personal financial responsibility as determined by the education department. | In Committee | 04/30/2025 |
| A08128 | Removes the cap on funds for teacher resource and computer training centers for the city school district for the city of New York. | In Committee | 05/01/2025 |
| A08156 | Requires the commissioner to incorporate measures of racial and socioeconomic integration into state accountability models; requires data compiled to be included in the school report card created by the department. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| A08157 | Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of eating disorders as an integral part of their health education programs. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| A08162 | Relates to establishing a commission for the educational advancement of multilingual learners in New York; provides such commission shall report on the best practices and legislative recommendations to close the achievement gap and high school graduation rates between multilingual learners and their English proficient peers from prekindergarten through twelfth grade. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| A08204 | Requires immediate notification of a child's parent or guardian when an allegation of child abuse in an educational setting has been made regarding such child. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| A08225 | Requires school districts and other facilities providing universal prekindergarten programs utilize all allotted funds for universal prekindergarten programs. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| A08239 | Prohibits the commissioner from promulgating any rules or regulations which prevent schools from disallowing biologically male students at birth to participate on a team organized for females where a school determines such biological male student's participation would have an adverse effect on the physical or emotional safety of female participants, or would adversely impact a female student's ability to participate successfully in interschool athletic competition. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| A08240 | Requires a traffic study that evaluates the potential impact of the proposed charter school on traffic patterns, safety and congestion in the surrounding area as part of an application to establish a charter school. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| A08258 | Exempts Massapequa union free school district from laws, rules, or regulations regarding the use of indigenous names, mascots, and logos. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| A08315 | Increases age eligibility for certain programs and benefits to age twenty-two for students with a disability. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08325 | Enacts the "our school our rules act"; prohibits mandatory regionalization plans. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08339 | Requires the state education department to develop a model mental health training program to serve as the mental health component of required school safety trainings as part of comprehensive district-wide safety plans developed by each district-wide school safety team. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08345 | Permits parents or guardians of twins or higher order multiples who attend school in Nassau or Suffolk county to request placement of such children in the same classroom; defines "higher order multiples". | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08377 | Provides for the employment of school nurses for the inspection of pupils attending certain public schools; relates to school districts and boards of cooperative educational services. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08390 | Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and provide funding for such. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08395 | Authorizes a weighted selection process prioritizing children who would be eligible to receive free or reduced price lunch and/or who are emergent multilingual learners for the allocation of certain prekindergarten seats in school districts where there are more eligible children than can be served in a given school year. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08396 | Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08440 | Relates to employment contracts between school bus workers and the department of education in a city with at least one million inhabitants. | In Committee | 05/16/2025 |
| A08458 | Requires climate change instruction within the current established science curriculum; requires such instruction be taught in grades one through twelve. | In Committee | 05/16/2025 |
| A08463 | Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history within the state; establishes an Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history advisory committee; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. | In Committee | 05/16/2025 |
| A08508 | Requires the commissioner of education mandate schools donate unused food to local food banks and establish policies and procedures to effectuate such program. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| A08513 | Enacts "Stella's law"; requires a staff member certified in first aid, CPR, and the Heimlich maneuver to be present in school cafeterias during lunchtimes. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| A08539 | Authorizes school districts to borrow against certain reserve funds, pursuant to a resolution adopted by the board of education of such school district. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| A08540 | Requires the education department, in consultation with the department of health, to develop and adopt a comprehensive fentanyl education, awareness, and recognition program for all public, charter, and private schools in the state. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| A08606 | Relates to calculation of interests costs for certain bonds issued to finance school rehabilitation or reconstruction costs for Rochester schools. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| A08612 | Authorizes students attending the Syracuse Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics high school, who participated in a high school athletic competition for a school district other than the Syracuse city school district in 7th and/or 8th grade, to be eligible for senior high school athletic competitions. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| A08633 | Directs school districts to establish parent advisory councils on special education to advise on matters that pertain to the education and safety of students with disabilities, and meet regularly with school officials to participate in the planning, development, and evaluation of the school district's special education programs. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| A08644 | Authorizes certain school districts and their municipalities to sign a memorandum of understanding authorizing a one-time annual increase to the amount of school district expenditures funded by city funds to be excluded from the maintenance of effort calculation. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| A08682 | Relates to property used by the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District number 12 and authorizes such school district to affiliate with Rising Ground, Inc. | In Committee | 05/29/2025 |
| C00151 | Provides for the election of eight Regents of the University of the State of New York | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/02/2025 |
| S00519 | Establishes the underrepresented teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain underrepresented certified teachers in schools which have an underrepresentation of underrepresented certified teachers; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution. | Crossed Over | 02/12/2025 |
| S01099 | Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available. | Crossed Over | 05/20/2025 |
| S01111 | Creates a single, streamlined process whereby a facility or program operating both a pre-kindergarten program and a daycare program may apply for and receive any certification, licensing, or other requirement otherwise necessary to operate a pre-kindergarten program or daycare program under the laws of the state. | Crossed Over | 05/28/2025 |
| S01349 | Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety and swimming certification to certain parents or students upon enrollment; relates to promoting public awareness of the dangers of fatal and non-fatal drowning. | Crossed Over | 05/22/2025 |
| S01424 | Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair. | Crossed Over | 04/24/2025 |
| S02126 | Directs the commissioner to convene statewide and regional conventions to bring together underrepresented educators annually to discuss experiences, best practices, and afford for networking, mentorship opportunities, and support. | Crossed Over | 02/12/2025 |
| S02505 | Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. | Crossed Over | 02/12/2025 |
| S02589 | Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration. | Crossed Over | 04/02/2025 |
| S02590 | Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events. | Crossed Over | 04/01/2025 |
| S02657 | Establishes the bilingual teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain bilingual, certified teachers in schools with a bilingual teacher shortage; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution. | Crossed Over | 02/12/2025 |
| S03071 | Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety. | Crossed Over | 05/05/2025 |
| S03336 | Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria. | Crossed Over | 03/26/2025 |
| S03786 | Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more. | Crossed Over | 04/09/2025 |
| S04434 | Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections in Orange County. | Crossed Over | 03/17/2025 |