Bill Text: NY A02353 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the public officers law, in relation to public access to records of elementary and secondary schools

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to governmental operations [A02353 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02353-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2353
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 15, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to public access to
         records of elementary and secondary schools
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  The public officers law is amended by adding a new section
    2  87-a to read as follows:
    3    S  87-A.  ACCESS  TO CERTAIN RECORDS OF SCHOOLS.  PARENTS OR GUARDIANS
    4  SHALL HAVE ACCESS TO BOTH PHYSICAL AND ACADEMIC TESTING RECORDS OF THEIR
    5  CHILD.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW,  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
    6  THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  TO  BE  APPLICABLE TO AN ELEMENTARY OR
    7  SECONDARY SCHOOL WHICH PROVIDES INSTRUCTION IN ACCORDANCE  WITH  SECTION
    8  THIRTY-TWO  HUNDRED  FOUR  OF THE EDUCATION LAW; AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF
    9  THIS ARTICLE, "AGENCY" SHALL INCLUDE THE GOVERNING BOARD OR BODY OF SUCH
   10  ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, TEST-
   11  ING RECORDS SHALL INCLUDE STATE ADMINISTERED  EXAMS,  SPECIAL  EDUCATION
   12  DETERMINATION EXAMS, HEARING EXAMS, SPEECH EXAMS, AND VISION EXAMS.
   13    S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
   14  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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