Bill Text: NY A08639 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Ensures that preschoolers with disabilities living in temporary housing shall maintain enrollment in their preschool special education program in the district of origin.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to education [A08639 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08639-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8639
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    December 23, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to the education of a
          preschool child with a handicapping condition
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.   Paragraphs d, e and g of subdivision 1 of section 4410-a
     2  of the education law, as amended by chapter 705 of the laws of 1992, are
     3  amended and a new paragraph i is added to read as follows:
     4    d. "Municipality of current location" for a child in foster care or  a
     5  child  in  residential  care  shall mean a municipality in which a child
     6  lives which is different from the municipality in which a child or  such
     7  child's  family  lived  at  the  time a social services district assumed
     8  responsibility for the placement of such child or family, or at the time
     9  such child was admitted for care and/or treatment in a facility licensed
    10  or operated by another state agency.   Provided,  however,  that  for  a
    11  child  who is homeless "municipality of current location" shall mean the
    12  municipality in which the hotel,  motel,  shelter,  or  other  temporary
    13  housing  arrangement  of a homeless child is located, which is different
    14  from the municipality of residence.
    15    e. "Municipality of residence" for a child in foster care or  a  child
    16  in residential care shall mean the municipality in which a child or such
    17  child's  family  lived  at  the  time the local social services district
    18  assumed responsibility for the placement of such child or family, or  at
    19  the time such child was admitted for care and/or treatment in a facility
    20  licensed  or  operated  by another state agency. Provided, however, that
    21  for a child who is homeless "municipality of residence" shall  mean  the
    22  municipality  in which a child or such child's family lived when circum-
    23  stances arose which caused such child to become homeless.
    24    g. "School district of current location" for a child in foster care or
    25  a child in residential care shall mean a  school  district  in  which  a
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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