Bill Text: NY A09352 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires funding for special education services and programs for preschool children with disabilities to cover joint classroom instruction for such children with disabilities and other children for the same number of hours each day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-06 - referred to education [A09352 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09352-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9352

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring funding for
          special education services and programs for  preschool  children  with
          disabilities to cover full-day joint classroom instruction

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

     1    Section 1. Section 4410 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
     3    14.  Full-day  special  education  funding.  Any  school district that
     4  receives funds for special education services or programs for  preschool
     5  children  with  disabilities pursuant to this section, and that receives
     6  funds for federal and/or statewide  universal  prekindergarten  programs
     7  pursuant  to  section thirty-six hundred two-e and/or section thirty-six
     8  hundred two-ee of this chapter,  shall  be  mandated  to  operate  joint
     9  classroom   instruction  for  preschool  children  who  require  special
    10  services or programs under this section, and other children for the same
    11  number of hours each day.   The department shall  promulgate  any  rules
    12  and/or  regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this subdi-
    13  vision.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13727-02-4
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