Bill Text: NY A05275 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Clarifies the application of standardized testing requirements to the general education development exam by explicitly including it in the definition of "standardized test" and "test".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - enacting clause stricken [A05275 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05275-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5275

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to clarifying the  appli-
          cation  of  standardized testing requirements to the general education
          development exam

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  340 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 567 of the laws  of  1986,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. "Standardized test" or "test" means:
     5    a.  any  test  that  is  given  in New York at the expense of the test
     6  subject and designed for use and used in the process  of  selection  for
     7  post-secondary  or  professional  school  admissions.  Such  tests shall
     8  include, but are not limited to,  the  Preliminary  Scholastic  Aptitude
     9  Test, Scholastic Aptitude Test, ACT Assessment, Graduate Record Examina-
    10  tion,  Medical College Admission Test, Law School Admission Test, Dental
    11  Admission Testing Program, Graduate Management  Admission  Test,  Miller
    12  Analogies  Test  and the Test for Standard Written English. This article
    13  shall not apply to any state, federal, or local civil service test,  any
    14  test used solely for placement, credit-by-examination or other nonadmis-
    15  sion  purpose  or  any  test developed and administered by an individual
    16  school or institution solely for  its  own  purposes  or  any  test,  or
    17  portion  of a test, designed to evaluate manual skills or other physical
    18  abilities; and
    19    b. the general education development exam.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth 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.
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