S5067 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
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.
- Title
- Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma to the Excelsior diploma
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-28
- In committee
- Education
- Introduced
- 2025-02-18
- Active version
- S5067B
- Same as
- A129
- Law section
- Education Law
Sponsors
- Luis R. Sepúlveda State Senator, District 32
Co-sponsors
- Andrew Gounardes State Senator, District 26
- Kevin S. Parker State Senator, District 21
- Robert Jackson State Senator, District 31
Heard in committee
Same as
- A129 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Education, 2026-03-17 First reading
- Education, 2025-05-20 First reading