Bill Text: NY A04691 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that where children with disabilities are placed in out-of-state facilities, the state shall provide for all special services or programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to education [A04691 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04691-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4691
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 4, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, CUSICK, REILLY, ORTIZ, GABRYSZAK, SCHROE-
DER, WEISENBERG, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BENEDETTO,
PHEFFER, SWEENEY, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to children with disabil-
ities placed in out-of-state facilities
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 4401 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
3 12. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE, WHERE
4 A CHILD WITH A DISABILITY IS PLACED IN AN OUT-OF-STATE FACILITY, AS
5 APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER, THE STATE SHALL PROVIDE FOR ALL SPECIAL
6 SERVICES OR PROGRAMS AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF
7 THIS SECTION.
8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
9 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.
LBD08044-01-1
