S7726 • 2025

Establishes interschool robotics competitions for certain schools

Education

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Mario Mattera
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Establishes interschool robotics competitions for certain schools

Establishes interschool robotics competitions for certain schools 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.

What This Bill Does

Establishes interschool robotics competitions for certain schools 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.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-21 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-20 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-19 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1177
2026-05-12 Senate
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION
2026-05-12 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 7726A
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2025-05-01 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Establishes interschool robotics competitions for certain schools
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.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7726

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       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