Bill Text: NY S00757 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to pendency placements in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S00757 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00757-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         757--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LIU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to pendency placements in
          a school district in a city having a population of one million or more

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

     1    Section 1. Section 4404 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 1-b to read as follows:
     3    1-b.  a.  Notwithstanding    any other provision of law, rule or regu-
     4  lation to the contrary, in a school district in a city  having  a  popu-
     5  lation    of   one million   or   more, the parent or person in parental
     6  relation shall be entitled to the presumption that the school identified
     7  in a settlement agreement entered on or after the effective date of this
     8  subdivision is the student's operative placement  for  the  purposes  of
     9  pendency  until  there  is an intervening, pendency-changing event (that
    10  is, an actual agreement of the parties; an  unappealed  decision  by  an
    11  impartial  hearing  officer; a decision of the state review officer that
    12  agrees with the parents as to  the  appropriateness  of  their  proposed
    13  change  in  placement;  or a determination by a court on appeal from the
    14  decision of a state review officer) or a program offered by  the  school
    15  district  and  not  challenged  by the parent. Each child's IEP shall be
    16  reviewed  periodically,  but  not  less  frequently  than  annually,  as
    17  required  by  20  U.S.C. 1414(d)(4)(A)(i). Pendency payments for tuition
    18  shall be at the tuition cost of the previous year's  payments  unless  a
    19  new IEP was performed, and shall be made prospectively and shall be made
    20  for  amounts not less than two months' worth of tuition or the remaining
    21  balance on the contract, whichever is smaller, provided that the initial
    22  tuition payment may include retroactive payments. Pendency payments,  as

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00163-04-3

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     1  provided  for  in subdivision four of this section, shall continue unin-
     2  terrupted while the appeal is pending.
     3    b. Where a claim for tuition for a school year commencing in two thou-
     4  sand twenty-one or earlier has been filed pursuant to this section on or
     5  before  June  thirtieth, two thousand twenty-two and remains pending and
     6  timely, the local educational agency of a city having  a  population  of
     7  over  one  million shall, on or before January first, two thousand twen-
     8  ty-four, make all reasonable efforts to finalize a settlement or  inform
     9  the parent or person in parental relation, or their representative, that
    10  it  has  not  been  able  to settle the claim. Nothing in this act shall
    11  preclude parties from reaching a settlement  after  January  first,  two
    12  thousand  twenty-four.    Any  settlements  for tuition, including those
    13  already settled, shall include a schedule for  payments,  the  first  of
    14  which  shall begin no later than sixty days after the latter of the date
    15  the settlement is fully executed or receipt of  documentation  necessary
    16  for  payment, and the remainder of which shall be completed within sixty
    17  days of receipt of any documentation necessary for payment.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.
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