Bill Text: NY A02632 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2632

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes the first of April as the annual reporting deadline for the basic educational data system (BEDS); imposes some additional requirements for calculating and reporting a school's student population.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - referred to education [A02632 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02632-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2632

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 21, 2025
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the first
          of April as basic educational data system (BEDS) day

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

     1    Section  1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 3615
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3615. Basic educational data system (BEDS) day. 1. For  purposes  of
     4  this  section,  "BEDS  day" shall mean the annual reporting deadline for
     5  the basic educational data system pursuant to title  eight  of  the  New
     6  York codes, rules, and regulations.
     7    2.  Beginning in the two thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six
     8  school year and for each school year thereafter, BEDS day shall occur on
     9  the first of April of each year.
    10    3. For BEDS reporting purposes, student population calculations  shall
    11  be  based on the number of students enrolled at a school on BEDS day for
    12  a given school year and who are continuously enrolled at such school for
    13  more than half of such school year.
    14    4. The commissioner shall adopt, promulgate, amend, or  rescind  rules
    15  and  regulations  to  effectuate  the  purposes  and  provisions of this
    16  section.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    19  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    20  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    21  on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05648-01-5