 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1732
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student governments
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 817. Student government. The board of education or trustees of every
     4  school  district  serving  high  school  students in grades nine through
     5  twelve with no districtwide or school  building  peer  selected  student
     6  government  shall establish at least one student government organization
     7  within such district or school building with the goal  of  ensuring  all
     8  eligible  students  have  the opportunity to participate in such student
     9  government.
    10    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    11  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02370-01-3
Relates to student governments in secondary schools

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