STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1201 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 7, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, TAYLOR, GALEF, DICKENS, NOLAN, GOTT- FRIED, GUNTHER, McMAHON, DINOWITZ, SIMON, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH, REIL- LY, MANKTELOW, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT in relation to requiring school districts to provide educational and support services to students with disabilities until such students turn twenty-two years of age The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to 2 the contrary, in recognition of the difficulties distance learning 3 during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic poses to students with disa- 4 bilities, and the educational opportunities for students with disabili- 5 ties that were lost or hampered, each New York school district shall 6 provide educational and support services to students with disabilities 7 in special education programs and to pupils who are qualified hand- 8 icapped persons as defined in the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen 9 hundred seventy-three, as amended, in accordance with the student's most 10 recent Individualized Education Program (IEP) until such student turns 11 twenty-two years of age for the school years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the 13 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years only. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01699-01-1