Bill Text: NY A03067 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a student enrolled in an individualized education program during certain school years may continue to receive educational services until the student completes the services pursuant to the individualized education program or the end of the school year during which the student turns twenty-two years old, whichever is sooner.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-06-03 - print number 3067b [A03067 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03067-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3067

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT in relation to requiring school districts to provide educational
          and support services to students with disabilities until such students
          turn twenty-three years of age

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to
     2  the  contrary,  in  recognition  of  the  difficulties distance learning
     3  during the coronavirus  (COVID-19) pandemic poses to students with disa-
     4  bilities, and the educational opportunities for students with  disabili-
     5  ties  that  were  lost  or hampered, each New York school district shall
     6  provide educational and support services to students  with  disabilities
     7  in  special  education  programs  and  to pupils who are qualified hand-
     8  icapped persons as defined in the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen
     9  hundred seventy-three, as amended, in accordance with the student's most
    10  recent Individualized Education Program (IEP) until such  student  turns
    11  twenty-three  years of age for the school years 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and
    12  2021-2022.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  the
    14  2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years only.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04157-01-3