Bill Text: NY A02659 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a yearly inspection of all audiological testing equipment in all schools.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - referred to education [A02659 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02659-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2659

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 21, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SAYEGH,  TAYLOR,  WILLIAMS,  ZINERMAN, COOK,
          LEMONDES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once  and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to requiring a yearly
          inspection of all audiological testing equipment

          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 926 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  926. Audiological testing equipment inspection. 1. All audiological
     4  testing equipment shall be inspected and tested at intervals not exceed-
     5  ing one year.  Inspections and tests shall be  performed  in  accordance
     6  with  the  applicable  standards of the manufacturer and any appropriate
     7  government agency. Any audiological testing equipment that does not meet
     8  such applicable standards shall be exchanged for new audiological  test-
     9  ing equipment.
    10    2.  For the purposes of this section, "audiological testing equipment"
    11  shall mean any equipment or device used  during  a  hearing  examination
    12  pursuant to section nine hundred five of this article.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    15  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    16  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    17  completed on or before such effective date.



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