Bill Text: NY A02240 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students and provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A02240 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02240-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2240
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  school  districts
          screening for gifted and talented students
          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 57 to read as follows:
     3    57. a. The commissioner shall require all school districts  to  screen
     4  for  gifted and talented students. Such students shall be screened prior
     5  to entering third grade.
     6    b. School districts shall provide notice of  such  screening  to  each
     7  student  and  to the parent or guardian of each student enrolled in such
     8  school district.  The notice shall:
     9    (i) be printed in a clear and conspicuous manner  and  shall  describe
    10  such screening methods; and
    11    (ii)  give  the  parent or guardian of such student the opportunity to
    12  opt out of such screening by checking the box "do not screen my child".
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01294-01-9
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