Bill Text: NY S08353 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8353 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires funding for special education services and programs for preschool children with disabilities to cover joint classroom instruction for such children with disabilities and other children for the same number of hours each day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-19 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S08353 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08353-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8353

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring funding  for
          special  education  services  and programs for preschool children with
          disabilities to cover full-day joint classroom instruction

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  4410 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
     3    14. Full-day special  education  funding.  Any  school  district  that
     4  receives  funds for special education services or programs for preschool
     5  children with disabilities pursuant to this section, and  that  receives
     6  funds  for  federal  and/or statewide universal prekindergarten programs
     7  pursuant to section thirty-six hundred two-e and/or  section  thirty-six
     8  hundred  two-ee  of  this  chapter,  shall  be mandated to operate joint
     9  classroom  instruction  for  preschool  children  who  require   special
    10  services or programs under this section, and other children for the same
    11  number  of  hours  each day.   The department shall promulgate any rules
    12  and/or regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this  subdi-
    13  vision.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13727-02-4