Bill Text: NY A05311 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires vision screening examinations for students using examination devices and testing methods, including, but not limited to, the Snellen Eye Test Chart and automated vision screening devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A05311 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05311-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5311

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to vision screening exam-
          inations of students

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section  905  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  477  of  the  laws  of 2004, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    4. Vision screening examinations of students in the  schools  of  this
     5  state made pursuant to subdivision one of this section, or made pursuant
     6  to  the  by-laws,  regulations or practices of the board of education of
     7  the city school district of the city of New York, shall  be  subject  to
     8  the provisions of this subdivision, and where inconsistent herewith, the
     9  provisions  of this subdivision shall prevail. In addition to any vision
    10  screening examinations otherwise required by the provisions or practices
    11  cited in this subdivision, all students who enroll in a school  of  this
    12  state  shall  be  tested  for color perception, distance acuity and near
    13  vision within six months of admission to the school, or  by  such  other
    14  date  as may be prescribed in the regulations of the commissioner, using
    15  examination devices and testing methods as  may  be  authorized  in  the
    16  regulations of the commissioner, including but not limited to, the Snel-
    17  len  Eye  Test Chart and automated vision screening devices. The results
    18  of any such vision screening examinations, whether made pursuant to this
    19  subdivision or pursuant to the provisions or  practices  cited  in  this
    20  subdivision,  shall  be  in  writing  and shall be made available to the
    21  student's parent or person in parental relation and to  any  teacher  of
    22  the  student  within  the  school  while  the student is enrolled in the
    23  school, and shall be kept in a permanent file of the school for at least
    24  as long as the minimum retention period for such records, as  prescribed
    25  by  the  commissioner  pursuant to article fifty-seven-A of the arts and
    26  cultural affairs law.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04130-01-1