S 7726: Directs the commissioner of education to promulgate and review as necessary rules and regulations allowing trustees and boards of education of schools with a robotics program to conduct interschool robotics competitions for grades nine through twelve equivalent to the interschool athletic competitions conducted by such schools.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7726 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 1, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MATTERA -- 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 establishing inter- school robotics competitions for certain schools The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 63 to read as follows: 3 63. The commissioner shall promulgate and review as necessary rules 4 and regulations requiring trustees and boards of education of schools 5 with a robotics program to conduct interschool robotics competitions for 6 grades nine through twelve equivalent to the interschool athletic compe- 7 titions conducted by such schools. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 9 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the 10 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary 11 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized 12 to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11696-01-5