Bill Text: NY A05642 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5642

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes an office of special education services within the state education department to administer programs for children with disabilities to be headed by an assistant commissioner appointed by the board of regents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - referred to education [A05642 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05642-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5642

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 18, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  providing  for  an
          office  of special education services to administer programs for chil-
          dren with disabilities

          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 4411
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 4411. Office of special  education  services.  1.  There  is  hereby
     4  created  in the department an office of special education services.  The
     5  head of the office shall be  an  assistant  commissioner  who  shall  be
     6  appointed by the board of regents and who shall hold office at the plea-
     7  sure of the board of regents.
     8    2.  The  office  of  special education services shall be the principal
     9  agency for administering and conveying the provisions  of  this  article
    10  relating  to  programs and activities for the education of children with
    11  disabilities.
    12    3. The assistant commissioner appointed pursuant to this section shall
    13  direct the work of the office and shall be the chief  executive  officer
    14  of  the  office  reporting  directly to the commissioner. Such assistant
    15  commissioner may appoint such officers and employees as  they  may  deem
    16  necessary,  prescribe  their duties, fix their compensation, and provide
    17  for the reimbursement of their expenses, all within amounts made  avail-
    18  able  therefor  by state and federal appropriations; provided that there
    19  shall be not less than six officers consisting of three division  direc-
    20  tors and three bureau chiefs to assist the assistant commissioner.
    21    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    22  the date on which it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09255-01-5