Bill Text: NY A08831 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires school district superintendents to give notice of the termination of special therapy services sixty days prior to such termination.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-19 - referred to education [A08831 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A08831-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8831
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 19, 2014
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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 notice of the termi-
nation of special therapy services by school districts
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 3036
2 to read as follows:
3 S 3036. SPECIAL THERAPY SERVICES; NOTICE OF TERMINATION. THE SUPER-
4 INTENDENT OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH PROVIDES PHYSICAL THERAPY, OCCUPA-
5 TIONAL THERAPY, OR ANY OTHER SPECIAL THERAPY SERVICES TO ANY STUDENTS
6 WITH SPECIAL NEEDS SHALL, NOT LESS THAN SIXTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE TERMI-
7 NATION OF ANY SUCH SERVICES:
8 1. NOTIFY, IN WRITING, THE PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF EACH STUDENT
9 RECEIVING SUCH SERVICES THAT SUCH SERVICES WILL BE TERMINATED; AND
10 2. PLACE ON THE INTERNET WEBSITE FOR SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT, A NOTICE
11 THAT SUCH SERVICES WILL BE TERMINATED.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10610-01-3
