STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7728--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN, BRINDISI, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 a 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. Such regulations shall ensure 7 that students selected for an alternative high school equivalency prepa- 8 ration program is limited to those students with a credit deficiency 9 that cannot be made up before they turn twenty-one years of age. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11470-03-8