Bill Text: NY A00396 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 396

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A00396 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00396-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           396

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BURDICK,  GALLAHAN, MEEKS, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON,
          SANTABARBARA, J. A. GIGLIO, LUNSFORD, HEVESI, SAYEGH -- read once  and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to authorizing school
          districts that provide transition services to allow  the  delivery  of
          such  transition  services,  including  integrated  employment, during
          school hours

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 4402 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by chapter 273 of the laws of 1986, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c. (1) Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to prohib-
     5  it  a committee on special education from recommending a special service
     6  or program specified in  paragraph  d  of  subdivision  two  of  section
     7  forty-four  hundred  one  of  this  [chapter] article or to diminish the
     8  power of the commissioner to make appointments pursuant  to  such  para-
     9  graph.
    10    (2)   Provided, however, that where the board of education or trustees
    11  in furnishing suitable educational opportunities for students with disa-
    12  bilities has selected as one of  the  most  reasonable  and  appropriate
    13  special services or programs for such children from those programs spec-
    14  ified  in  paragraph  n of subdivision two of section forty-four hundred
    15  one of this article upon receipt of the recommendation of the  committee
    16  on  special  education, the provision of transition services, in partic-
    17  ular vocational training programs  approved  by  the  department  or  by
    18  another state agency shall be permitted to occur in the last three years
    19  of secondary education of a student with disability during school hours.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01129-01-3