Bill Text: NY A02725 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes the records of elementary and secondary schools available for public inspection and copying under the freedom of information law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A02725 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02725-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2725
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to public access to
          records of elementary and secondary schools
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  The public officers law is amended by adding a new section
     2  87-a to read as follows:
     3    §  87-a.  Access  to certain records of schools.  Parents or guardians
     4  shall have access to both physical and academic testing records of their
     5  child.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law,  the  provisions  of
     6  this  article  shall  be  deemed  to  be  applicable to an elementary or
     7  secondary school which provides instruction in accordance  with  section
     8  thirty-two  hundred  four  of the education law; and for the purposes of
     9  this article, "agency" shall include the governing board or body of such
    10  elementary or secondary school.  For the purposes of this section, test-
    11  ing records shall include state administered  exams,  special  education
    12  determination exams, hearing exams, speech exams, and vision exams.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    14  succeeding 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.
                                                                   LBD00956-01-9