Directs the commissioner of education to conduct a survey of recess held in schools serving students in kindergarten through grade six, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  8377--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT in relation to directing the commissioner of education to conduct
   a  survey  of  recess held in schools serving students in kindergarten
   through grade six
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  commissioner  of  education is directed to conduct a
 survey of recess held in public and  charter  schools  serving  students
 from  kindergarten  through  grade  six, which shall include, but not be
 limited to:
   (a) information pertaining to the number of schools currently offering
 recess;
   (b) the length of such recess and how often it is provided;
   (c) information pertaining to the location of such  recess,  including
 whether such recess is held indoors or outdoors;
   (d) if schools provide a dedicated space for such recess;
   (e) if the school's recess is supervised or unsupervised;
   (f) how many schools have a nurse on premises during the school day in
 each school building;
   (g) what the barriers are to providing recess; and
   (h)  if such recess is structured and if students are offered time for
 unstructured play.
   § 2. On or before March 1, 2026 or 180 days after this  section  shall
 have  become  a  law,  whichever is later, the commissioner of education
 shall provide the information from  the  survey  to  the  governor,  the
 temporary  president  of  the  senate,  the speaker of the assembly, the
 senate minority leader, the assembly minority  leader,  and  the  chair-
 persons  and  ranking  members  of the senate and assembly committees on
 education. Such information shall also be released on the public website
 of the New York state education department.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13091-11-5