Bill Text: NY A10225 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that all students who enroll in a school of this state shall be vision tested for hyperopia within six months of admission to school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-15 - referred to education [A10225 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10225-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10225
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 15, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to vision screening of
         students
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  905 of the education law, as
    2  amended by chapter 477 of the laws  of  2004,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    4.  Vision  screening  examinations of students in the schools of this
    5  state made pursuant to subdivision one of this section, or made pursuant
    6  to the by-laws, regulations or practices of the board  of  education  of
    7  the  city  school  district of the city of New York, shall be subject to
    8  the provisions of this subdivision, and where inconsistent herewith, the
    9  provisions of this subdivision shall prevail. In addition to any  vision
   10  screening examinations otherwise required by the provisions or practices
   11  cited  in  this subdivision, all students who enroll in a school of this
   12  state shall be tested for color perception, HYPEROPIA,  distance  acuity
   13  and near vision within six months of admission to the school, or by such
   14  other  date as may be prescribed in the regulations of the commissioner.
   15  The results of any such  vision  screening  examinations,  whether  made
   16  pursuant  to this subdivision or pursuant to the provisions or practices
   17  cited in this subdivision, shall be in writing and shall be made  avail-
   18  able  to  the student's parent or person in parental relation and to any
   19  teacher of the student within the school while the student  is  enrolled
   20  in  the  school, and shall be kept in a permanent file of the school for
   21  at least as long as the minimum retention period for  such  records,  as
   22  prescribed  by the commissioner pursuant to article fifty-seven-A of the
   23  arts and cultural affairs law.
   24    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
   25  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.
                                                                  LBD15737-01-2