Bill Text: NY S02880 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to gifted and talented pupils with special needs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-22 - PRINT NUMBER 2880A [S02880 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02880-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 2880--A                                            A. 4202--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2015
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        IN  SENATE  --  Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, ESPAILLAT -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Education  --  recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance
          with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, JAFFEE, MILLER -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  MAGNARELLI,  McDONOUGH  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee
          on  Education  in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  gifted  and  talented
          pupils  with  special  needs, and to repeal certain provisions of such
          law related thereto
          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 3602-c of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
     3    g. "Twice-exceptional" shall mean those pupils who  give  evidence  of
     4  the  potential  for  high cognitive processing capabilities commensurate
     5  with or contrary to cognitive  processing  taken  as  norms  of  regular
     6  education  in  areas  such  as,  but not limited to: specific academics,
     7  general intellectual ability,  creativity,  leadership,  and/or  visual,
     8  spatial  or performing arts; and also give evidence of one or more disa-
     9  bilities as defined by federal or state eligibility  criteria  such  as,
    10  but  not limited to, specific learning disabilities, speech and language
    11  disorders, emotional/behavioral disorders, physical disabilities, autism
    12  spectrum, or other health impairments, such as  ADHD.  Such  term  shall
    13  include those pupils who require educational programs or services beyond
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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