STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7728
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  authorizing  private
          special  education schools to seek department approval to offer alter-
          native high school equivalency preparation programs
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding new
     2  subdivision 13-a to read as follows:
     3    13-a.  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate  regulations   authorizing
     4  private  special  education schools to seek department approval to oper-
     5  ate, administer, offer, or otherwise participate in an alternative  high
     6  school equivalency preparation program.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     8  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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