Bill Text: NY A08123 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school districts to refer a newly-registering child with a disability for evaluation within forty-eight hours of the time of the first contact between the school district and the person or entity registering the student with the school district, provided a request for referral has been made.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A08123 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08123-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8123

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  school
          districts  to  refer  a  child  with  a disability for evaluation when
          application for registration of the child with the district  is  first
          made

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

     1    Section 1. Section 4401-a of the education law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. With respect to a student who is registering with a school district
     4  for  the  first  time,  a referral for initial evaluation as provided in
     5  this section shall be made within forty-eight hours of the time  of  the
     6  first  contact  between  the  school  district  and the person or entity
     7  registering the student with the school district, provided a request for
     8  referral has been made. A referral for evaluation shall not  be  delayed
     9  until registration of the student has been completed.
    10    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately; provided, however, if
    11  this act shall have become a law after  June  30,  2024  it  shall  take
    12  effect  immediately  and  shall be deemed to have been in full force and
    13  effect on and after June 30, 2024; and provided further, that the amend-
    14  ments to section 4401-a of the education law made by section one of this
    15  act shall survive the  expiration  and  reversion  of  such  section  as
    16  provided  in  subdivision  d of section 27 of chapter 378 of the laws of
    17  2007, as amended.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11240-01-3